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

gre6: use log_ecn_error module parameter in ip6_tnl_rcv()

to the 4.9-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: gre6-use-log_ecn_error-module-parameter-in-ip6_tnl_rcv.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017

From: Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 19:16:17 +0300 Subject: gre6: use log_ecn_error module parameter in ip6_tnl_rcv()

From: Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com

[ Upstream commit 981542c526ecd846920bc500e9989da906ee9fb9 ]

After commit 308edfdf1563 ("gre6: Cleanup GREv6 receive path, call common GRE functions") it's not used anywhere in the module, but previously was used in ip6gre_rcv().

Fixes: 308edfdf1563 ("gre6: Cleanup GREv6 receive path, call common GRE functions") Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ static int ip6gre_rcv(struct sk_buff *sk &ipv6h->saddr, &ipv6h->daddr, tpi->key, tpi->proto); if (tunnel) { - ip6_tnl_rcv(tunnel, skb, tpi, NULL, false); + ip6_tnl_rcv(tunnel, skb, tpi, NULL, log_ecn_error);

return PACKET_RCVD; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexey.kodanev@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/gre6-use-log_ecn_error-module-parameter-in-ip6_tnl_rcv.patch