netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: gre: correct calculation of max

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Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:04:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, xeb@...l.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: gre: correct calculation of max_headroom

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 05:40:50 +0200

> gre_hlen already accounts for sizeof(struct ipv6_hdr) + gre header,
> so initialize max_headroom to zero. Otherwise the
> 
> 	if (encap_limit >= 0) {
> 		max_headroom += 8;
> 		mtu -= 8;
> 	}
> 
> increments an uninitialized variable before max_headroom was reset.
> 
> Found with coverity: 728539
> 
> Cc: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@...l.ru>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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