netdev - Re: [net] gre: fix the inner mac header in nbma gre tunnels xmit path

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Date:	Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:07:06 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	timo.teras@....fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, therbert@...gle.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net] gre: fix the inner mac header in nbma gre tunnels xmit
 path

From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@....fi>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:44:56 +0200

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:36:27 -0500 (EST)
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
>> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:14:39 +0200
>> 
>> > @@ -266,6 +262,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t ipgre_xmit(struct sk_buff
>> > *skb,
>> >  		 * to gre header.
>> >  		 */
>> >  		skb_pull(skb, tunnel->hlen + sizeof(struct iphdr));
>> > +		skb_reset_mac_header(mac);
>> 
>> Please explain to me how this compiles, let alone be functionally
>> tested.
> 
> Sorry. I made the change twice; once on the build box. And again on my
> git checkout on work station. Must've been on seriously coffee deprived
> state.
> 
> Should be obviously:
> +		skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
> 
> Is there other comments on it?

I don't care where you applied the patch, if you didn't type make after
making the change, that is extremely careless.
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