netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6 sit: work around bogus gcc-8 -Wrestrict warning

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Date:   Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:00:33 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     arnd@...db.de
Cc:     eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6 sit: work around bogus gcc-8 -Wrestrict warning

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:56:12 +0100

> I expect to do the same for gcc-8. Most of the fixes are trivial
> anyway, and some of them fix actual bugs that would otherwise get
> missed.

It does make the code easier to understand and you can more directly
see what it's trying to check.

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.