netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ip_gre: fix ipgre_header to return correct offset

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Date:	Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:06:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	timo.teras@....fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org, pshelar@...ira.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ip_gre: fix ipgre_header to return correct offset

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:37:13 -0700

> On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 13:45 +0300, Timo Teräs wrote:
>> Fix ipgre_header() (header_ops->create) to return the correct
>> amount of bytes pushed. Most callers of dev_hard_header() seem
>> to care only if it was success, but af_packet.c uses it as
>> offset to the skb to copy from userspace only once. In practice
>> this fixes packet socket sendto()/sendmsg() to gre tunnels.
>> 
>> Regression introduced in c54419321455631079c7d6e60bc732dd0c5914c5
>> ("GRE: Refactor GRE tunneling code.")
>> 
>> Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
>> ---
>> Should go to 3.10-stable too. Without this dmvpn setup does not work
>> at all, as opennhrp uses packet sockets to send the nhrp packets.
>> 
>>  net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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