netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: sr: fix useless rol32 call on hash

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Date:   Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:03:13 +0100
From:   David Lebrun <dav.lebrun@...il.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: sr: fix useless rol32 call on hash

On 07/17/2018 04:52 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King<colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The rol32 call is currently rotating hash but the rol'd value is
> being discarded. I believe the current code is incorrect and hash
> should be assigned the rotated value returned from rol32.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1468411 ("Useless call")
> 
> Fixes: b5facfdba14c ("ipv6: sr: Compute flowlabel for outer IPv6 header of seg6 encap mode")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King<colin.king@...onical.com>

Acked-by: dlebrun@...gle.com

Good catch, thanks !

In that case, the same issue is present in 
include/net/ipv6.h:ip6_make_flowlabel().