[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "ip: use ip_hdr() in __ip_make_skb() to retrieve IP header" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    ip: use ip_hdr() in __ip_make_skb() to retrieve IP header

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 3.8.13.12.

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: Ansis Atteka <aatteka at nicira.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:29:52 -0700
Subject: ip: use ip_hdr() in __ip_make_skb() to retrieve IP header

[ Upstream commit 749154aa56b57652a282cbde57a57abc278d1205 ]

skb->data already points to IP header, but for the sake of
consistency we can also use ip_hdr() to retrieve it.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka at nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 3e98ed2..c3209b5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__ip_make_skb(struct sock *sk,
 	else
 		ttl = ip_select_ttl(inet, &rt->dst);

-	iph = (struct iphdr *)skb->data;
+	iph = ip_hdr(skb);
 	iph->version = 4;
 	iph->ihl = 5;
 	iph->tos = inet->tos;
--
1.8.1.2