Merge tag 'v3.7-rc1' into staging/for_v3.8

Linux 3.7-rc1

* tag 'v3.7-rc1': (9579 commits)
  Linux 3.7-rc1
  x86, boot: Explicitly include autoconf.h for hostprogs
  perf: Fix UAPI fallout
  ARM: config: make sure that platforms are ordered by option string
  ARM: config: sort select statements alphanumerically
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux/byteorder
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
  UAPI: Unexport linux/blk_types.h
  UAPI: Unexport part of linux/ppp-comp.h
  perf: Handle new rbtree implementation
  procfs: don't need a PATH_MAX allocation to hold a string representation of an int
  vfs: embed struct filename inside of names_cache allocation if possible
  audit: make audit_inode take struct filename
  vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointer
  vfs: turn do_path_lookup into wrapper around struct filename variant
  audit: allow audit code to satisfy getname requests from its names_list
  vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it
  btrfs: Fix compilation with user namespace support enabled
  userns: Fix posix_acl_file_xattr_userns gid conversion
  userns: Properly print bluetooth socket uids
  ...

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/dst.h b/include/net/dst.h
index 621e3513ef5e..9a7881066fb3 100644
--- a/include/net/dst.h
+++ b/include/net/dst.h
@@ -396,11 +396,15 @@ static inline void dst_confirm(struct dst_entry *dst)
 static inline int dst_neigh_output(struct dst_entry *dst, struct neighbour *n,
 				   struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	struct hh_cache *hh;
+	const struct hh_cache *hh;
+
+	if (dst->pending_confirm) {
+		unsigned long now = jiffies;
 
-	if (unlikely(dst->pending_confirm)) {
-		n->confirmed = jiffies;
 		dst->pending_confirm = 0;
+		/* avoid dirtying neighbour */
+		if (n->confirmed != now)
+			n->confirmed = now;
 	}
 
 	hh = &n->hh;