netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 3/3] Revert: "ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl

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Date:   Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:35:11 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     elicooper@....com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 3/3] Revert: "ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol
 to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()"

From: Eli Cooper <elicooper@....com>
Date: Thu,  1 Dec 2016 10:05:12 +0800

> This reverts commit ae148b085876fa771d9ef2c05f85d4b4bf09ce0d
> ("ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()").
> 
> skb->protocol is now set in __ip_local_out() and __ip6_local_out() before
> dst_output() is called. It is no longer necessary to do it for each tunnel.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Eli Cooper <elicooper@....com>

Applied.