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

    neigh: set nud_state to NUD_INCOMPLETE when probing

to the 3.14-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:
     neigh-set-nud_state-to-nud_incomplete-when-probing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed May 28 21:03:54 PDT 2014
From: Duan Jiong <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 13:16:48 +0800
Subject: neigh: set nud_state to NUD_INCOMPLETE when probing
 router reachability

From: Duan Jiong <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 2176d5d41891753774f648b67470398a5acab584 ]

Since commit 7e98056964("ipv6: router reachability probing"), a router falls
into NUD_FAILED will be probed.

Now if function rt6_select() selects a router which neighbour state is 
NUD_FAILED,
and at the same time function rt6_probe() changes the neighbour state to 
NUD_PROBE,
then function dst_neigh_output() can directly send packets, but actually the
neighbour still is unreachable. If we set nud_state to NUD_INCOMPLETE instead
NUD_PROBE, packets will not be sent out until the neihbour is reachable.

In addition, because the route should be probes with a single NS, so we must
set neigh->probes to neigh_max_probes(), then the neigh timer timeout and 
function
neigh_timer_handler() will not send other NS Messages.

Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/core/neighbour.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1247,8 +1247,8 @@ void __neigh_set_probe_once(struct neigh
        neigh->updated = jiffies;
        if (!(neigh->nud_state & NUD_FAILED))
                return;
-       neigh->nud_state = NUD_PROBE;
-       atomic_set(&neigh->probes, NEIGH_VAR(neigh->parms, UCAST_PROBES));
+       neigh->nud_state = NUD_INCOMPLETE;
+       atomic_set(&neigh->probes, neigh_max_probes(neigh));
        neigh_add_timer(neigh,
                        jiffies + NEIGH_VAR(neigh->parms, RETRANS_TIME));
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.14/neigh-set-nud_state-to-nud_incomplete-when-probing.patch
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