netdev - Re: [PATCH ethtool 2/3] Add IPv6 support to NFC

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Date:	Sun, 13 Mar 2016 16:43:26 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>, Ben Hutchings <bwh@...nel.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool 2/3] Add IPv6 support to NFC

On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 14:59 +0000, Edward Cree wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
[...]
> @@ -950,6 +1154,19 @@ static int rxclass_get_mask(char *str, unsigned char *p,
>                 *(__be32 *)&p[opt->moffset] = ~val;
>                 break;
>         }
> +       case OPT_IP6: {
> +               __be32 val[4];
> +               int i;
> +               err = rxclass_get_ipv6(str, val);
> +               if (err)
> +                       return -1;
> +               for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
> +                       ((__be32 *)&p[opt->offset])[i] = val[i];
> +                       if (opt->moffset >= 0)
> +                               ((__be32 *)&p[opt->moffset])[i] = ~val[i];

This pointer arithmetic looks terrible.  I think memcpy() would be much
clearer here.

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I won't apply patches labelled as "confidential".  You need to stop
including this nonsense in your public messages (I thought you fixed
this once before).

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
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