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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clear skb cb on IP input
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:48:55 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:56:21 -0700

> when data arrives at IP through loopback (and possibly other devices).
> So the field needs to be cleared before it confuses the route code.
> This was seen when running netem over loopback, but there are probably
> other device cases. Maybe this should go into stable?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

Thank goodness this thing is only 3-words in size, this is going to
run on every single IPv4 packet received by the system. :-/

I'll apply this, thanks a lot Stephen.