netdev - Re: [net PATCH] bridge: Use the correct bit length for bitmap functions in the VLAN code

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Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 23:36:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp
Cc:	vyasevic@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net PATCH] bridge: Use the correct bit length for bitmap
 functions in the VLAN code

From: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:10:18 +0900

> The VLAN code needs to know the length of the per-port VLAN bitmap to
> perform its most basic operations (retrieving VLAN informations, removing
> VLANs, forwarding database manipulation, etc). Unfortunately, in the
> current implementation we are using a macro that indicates the bitmap
> size in longs in places where the size in bits is expected, which in
> some cases can cause what appear to be random failures.
> Use the correct macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thank you.
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