linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] ip6_tunnel, ip6_gre: fix setting of DSCP on encapsulated packets

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Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 15:49:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     petedaws@...il.com
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        kaber@...sh.net, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ip6_tunnel, ip6_gre: fix setting of DSCP on
 encapsulated packets

From: Peter Dawson <petedaws@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 05:46:27 +1000

> On Thu, 25 May 2017 12:11:17 -0400 (EDT)
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
>> > Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195661  
>> 
>> This is not the correct way to use the Fixes: tag.
>> 
>> You should specify the commit that introduced the regression
>> between 4.9.x and 4.10.x, and that you are fixing here.
> 
> Thanks for your review Dave. I'll resubmit the patch with the following detail and just reference the bugzilla in the main body of the commit comment.
> 
> Commit 90427ef5d2a4 ("ipv6: fix flow labels when the traffic class is non-0") caused the regression by masking out the flowlabel which exposed the incorrect the handling of the DSCP portion of the flowlabel in ip6_tunnel and ip6_gre.

Still not correct, you need to use a "Fixes: " tag of the form:

Fixes: 90427ef5d2a4 ("ipv6: fix flow labels when the traffic class is non-0")

And it must appear of the first line of tags, before signoffs and acks,
with no empty lines in between.

Thank you.