linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] tipc: fix issue that tipc

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Date:   Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:52:43 +0000
From:   Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Haiqing.Bai@...driver.com" <Haiqing.Bai@...driver.com>
CC:     "ying.xue@...driver.com" <ying.xue@...driver.com>,
        "zhenbo.gao@...driver.com" <zhenbo.gao@...driver.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] tipc: fix issue that tipc_dest neglects of big-endian

Hi David, 
Please hold this one for now. 

///jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Sent: Monday, 20 August, 2018 22:21
> To: Haiqing.Bai@...driver.com
> Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>; ying.xue@...driver.com; zhenbo.gao@...driver.com; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: fix issue that tipc_dest neglects of big-endian
> 
> From: Haiqing Bai <Haiqing.Bai@...driver.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 18:26:01 +0800
> 
> > The tipc multicast demo in tipcutils fails to work on big-endian hardware.
> > The tipc multicast server can not receive the packets sent by the multicast
> > client for that the dest port is always zero after tipc_dest_pop, then it
> > is found that the struct tipc_dest fails to take big/little endian into
> > account.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Haiqing Bai <Haiqing.Bai@...driver.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhenbo Gao <zhenbo.gao@...driver.com>
> 
> Jon and Ying, please review.
> 
> thank you.