From: David Miller <davem@redhat.com>
To: f.fainelli@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
aaron.f.brown@intel.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com,
jesse.brandeburg@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ixgbevf: fix skb->pkt_type checks
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:07:41 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140227.160741.1837528571194344504.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393454640-19651-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com>
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:44:00 -0800
> skb->pkt_type is not a bitmask, but contains only value at a time from
> the range defined in include/uapi/linux/if_packet.h.
>
> Checking it like if it was a bitmask of values would also cause
> PACKET_OTHERHOST, PACKET_LOOPBACK and PACKET_FASTROUTE to be matched by this
> check since their lower 2 bits are also set, although that does not fix a real
> bug due to how the checks are used, it is still potentially confusing.
>
> This bogus check was introduced in commit 815cccbf ("ixgbe: add setlink,
> getlink support to ixgbe and ixgbevf").
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Intel folks, I assume you will pick this up?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-27 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 22:44 [PATCH net-next] ixgbevf: fix skb->pkt_type checks Florian Fainelli
2014-02-27 21:07 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-02-27 22:39 ` Skidmore, Donald C
2014-02-27 22:58 ` Aaron Brown
2014-02-28 23:26 ` Brown, Aaron F
2014-02-28 23:31 ` Florian Fainelli
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