[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "net: Swap ver and type in pppoe_hdr" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: Swap ver and type in pppoe_hdr

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 8c8685be43fc3d676ac7cd6dc29b086eebfb9fdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:15:51 +0800
Subject: net: Swap ver and type in pppoe_hdr

[ Upstream commit b1a5a34bd0b8767ea689e68f8ea513e9710b671e ]

Ver and type in pppoe_hdr should be swapped as defined by RFC2516
section-4.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h
index 0b46fd5..e36a4ae 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_pppox.h
@@ -135,11 +135,11 @@ struct pppoe_tag {

 struct pppoe_hdr {
 #if defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD)
-	__u8 ver : 4;
 	__u8 type : 4;
+	__u8 ver : 4;
 #elif defined(__BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD)
-	__u8 type : 4;
 	__u8 ver : 4;
+	__u8 type : 4;
 #else
 #error	"Please fix <asm/byteorder.h>"
 #endif
--
1.8.1.2