linux-kernel - Re: [net-ipv4] question about arguments position

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Date:   Thu, 04 May 2017 12:46:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     garsilva@...eddedor.com
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-ipv4] question about arguments position

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 11:07:54 -0500

> While looking into Coverity ID 1357474 I ran into the following piece
> of code at net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:392:

Because it's been this way since at least 2005, it doesn't matter if
the order is correct or not.  What's there is the locked in behavior
exposed to userspace and changing it will break things for people.