netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: add a missing ntohs()

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Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:21:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: add a missing ntohs()

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:30:16 +0800

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 03:20:05PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Found by code review and sparse endianness warning, I am not sure this
>> patch is valid.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> [PATCH] bridge: add a missing ntohs()
>> 
>> grec_nsrcs is in network order, we should convert to host horder in
>> br_multicast_igmp3_report()
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Good catch Eric.

Note that this means that most igmpv3_grec entries get ignored
on little-endian because the greg_nsrcs will look "real big"
and thus the pskb_may_pull() will fail.

Anyways I'll apply this to net-2.6, thanks.
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