Patch "macsec: set actual real device for xmit when !protect_frames" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    macsec: set actual real device for xmit when !protect_frames

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     macsec-set-actual-real-device-for-xmit-when-protect_frames.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Jul 14 07:36:41 JST 2016
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 00:00:54 +0200
Subject: macsec: set actual real device for xmit when !protect_frames

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

[ Upstream commit 79c62220d74a4a3f961a2cb7320da09eebf5daf7 ]

Avoid recursions of dev_queue_xmit() to the wrong net device when
frames are unprotected, since at that time skb->dev still points to
our own macsec dev and unlike macsec_encrypt_finish() dev pointer
doesn't get updated to real underlying device.

Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/macsec.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -2564,6 +2564,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t macsec_start_xmit(str
 		u64_stats_update_begin(&secy_stats->syncp);
 		secy_stats->stats.OutPktsUntagged++;
 		u64_stats_update_end(&secy_stats->syncp);
+		skb->dev = macsec->real_dev;
 		len = skb->len;
 		ret = dev_queue_xmit(skb);
 		count_tx(dev, ret, len);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel@iogearbox.net are

queue-4.6/macsec-set-actual-real-device-for-xmit-when-protect_frames.patch