This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net: Allow neigh contructor functions ability to modify the primary_key

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: net-allow-neigh-contructor-functions-ability-to-modify-the-primary_key.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Mon Jan 29 11:15:06 CET 2018

From: Jim Westfall jwestfall@surrealistic.net Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:18:50 -0800 Subject: net: Allow neigh contructor functions ability to modify the primary_key

From: Jim Westfall jwestfall@surrealistic.net

[ Upstream commit 096b9854c04df86f03b38a97d40b6506e5730919 ]

Use n->primary_key instead of pkey to account for the possibility that a neigh constructor function may have modified the primary_key value.

Signed-off-by: Jim Westfall jwestfall@surrealistic.net Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/core/neighbour.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/neighbour.c +++ b/net/core/neighbour.c @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ struct neighbour *__neigh_create(struct if (atomic_read(&tbl->entries) > (1 << nht->hash_shift)) nht = neigh_hash_grow(tbl, nht->hash_shift + 1);

- hash_val = tbl->hash(pkey, dev, nht->hash_rnd) >> (32 - nht->hash_shift); + hash_val = tbl->hash(n->primary_key, dev, nht->hash_rnd) >> (32 - nht->hash_shift);

if (n->parms->dead) { rc = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ struct neighbour *__neigh_create(struct n1 != NULL; n1 = rcu_dereference_protected(n1->next, lockdep_is_held(&tbl->lock))) { - if (dev == n1->dev && !memcmp(n1->primary_key, pkey, key_len)) { + if (dev == n1->dev && !memcmp(n1->primary_key, n->primary_key, key_len)) { if (want_ref) neigh_hold(n1); rc = n1;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwestfall@surrealistic.net are

queue-3.18/ipv4-make-neigh-lookup-keys-for-loopback-point-to-point-devices-be-inaddr_any.patch queue-3.18/net-allow-neigh-contructor-functions-ability-to-modify-the-primary_key.patch