Re: tun: add VNET_LE flag

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:28:05PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Michael S. Tsirkin,
> 
> The patch e999d6ea2a4f: "tun: add VNET_LE flag" from Nov 18, 2014,
> leads to the following static checker warning:
> 
> 	drivers/net/tun.c:1694 tun_set_iff()
> 	warn: 0x17100 is larger than 16 bits
> 
> drivers/net/tun.c
>   1692  
>   1693          tun->flags = (tun->flags & ~TUN_FEATURES) |
>   1694                  (ifr->ifr_flags & TUN_FEATURES);
>   1695  
> 
> It's complaining because the "ifr->ifr_flags" variable is a short
> (should it be unsigned?).  The new define:
> 
> #define IFF_VNET_LE    0x10000
> 
> doesn't fit in two bytes.  Other suspect looking code could be:
> 
> 	return __virtio16_to_cpu(q->flags & IFF_VNET_LE, val);
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter


Thanks!
Of course most testing is on an LE host so it's hard to notice.
I'll fix it up.


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