netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix flow labels when the traffic class is non-0

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:23:23 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Dimitris Michailidis <dmichail@...gle.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix flow labels when the traffic class is non-0

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Dimitris Michailidis
<dmichail@...gle.com> wrote:
> ip6_make_flowlabel() determines the flow label for IPv6 packets. It's
> supposed to be passed a flow label, which it returns as is if non-0 and
> in some other cases, otherwise it calculates a new value.
>
> The problem is callers often pass a flowi6.flowlabel, which may also
> contain traffic class bits.

Do you have an idea which commit added this bug Dimitris ?

Thanks !