From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:27:08 +0000
Subject: Re: [bug report] vxlan: keep flags and vni in network byte order
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On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 02:12:03PM +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:05:09 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > The static checker clearly can't understand endian conversion macros.
> > VXLAN_VNI_MASK is:
> > 
> > cpu_to_be32(VXLAN_VID_MASK << 8)
> > 
> > Thus on little endian, it becomes 0x00ffffff.

Ah right.

> 
> Btw, until the unspecified static checker you used is not fixed to
> resolve such macros correctly, it can't be really used to check the
> kernel source, yet alone to generate bug reports. It will trip over
> false positive in gazillion places.

Nope.  Just this one.

regards,
dan carpenter