netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] qlge: Enhance nested VLAN (Q-in-Q) handling.

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Date:	Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:31:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jitendra.kalsaria@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ron.mercer@...gic.com,
	Dept_NX_Linux_NIC_Driver@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] qlge: Enhance nested VLAN (Q-in-Q)
 handling.

From: Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@...gic.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:51:07 -0400

> +	u16 *tags;
> +
> +	if (ib_mac_rsp->flags2 & IB_MAC_IOCB_RSP_V) {
> +		tags = (u16 *)page;
> +		/* Look for stacked vlan tags in ethertype field */
> +		if (tags[6] == htons(ETH_P_8021Q) &&
> +		    tags[8] == htons(ETH_P_8021Q))

htons() returns a __be16,  there is not way that this code doesn't
generate sparse endianness errors.

Also, your change is sacrificing single layered VLAN performance
for the sake of Q-in-Q as far as I can tell.  I don't think that's
a very wise tradeoff if so.
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