Patch "net/mlx4_en: Fix endianness bug in IPV6 csum calculation" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

Patch "net/mlx4_en: Fix endianness bug in IPV6 csum calculation" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    net/mlx4_en: Fix endianness bug in IPV6 csum calculation

to the 4.5-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:
     net-mlx4_en-fix-endianness-bug-in-ipv6-csum-calculation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 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 Mon May 16 11:20:33 PDT 2016
From: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@mellanox.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 15:00:33 +0300
Subject: net/mlx4_en: Fix endianness bug in IPV6 csum calculation

From: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@mellanox.com>

[ Upstream commit 82d69203df634b4dfa765c94f60ce9482bcc44d6 ]

Use htons instead of unconditionally byte swapping nexthdr.  On a little
endian systems shifting the byte is correct behavior, but it results in
incorrect csums on big endian architectures.

Fixes: f8c6455bb04b ('net/mlx4_en: Extend checksum offloading by CHECKSUM COMPLETE')
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Carol Soto <clsoto@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Carol Soto <clsoto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ static int get_fixed_ipv6_csum(__wsum hw
 
 	if (ipv6h->nexthdr == IPPROTO_FRAGMENT || ipv6h->nexthdr == IPPROTO_HOPOPTS)
 		return -1;
-	hw_checksum = csum_add(hw_checksum, (__force __wsum)(ipv6h->nexthdr << 8));
+	hw_checksum = csum_add(hw_checksum, (__force __wsum)htons(ipv6h->nexthdr));
 
 	csum_pseudo_hdr = csum_partial(&ipv6h->saddr,
 				       sizeof(ipv6h->saddr) + sizeof(ipv6h->daddr), 0);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from danielj@mellanox.com are

queue-4.5/net-mlx4_en-fix-endianness-bug-in-ipv6-csum-calculation.patch