netdev - Re: [NET_SCHED]: policer: restore compatibility with old iproute binaries

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Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:54:29 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET_SCHED]: policer: restore compatibility with old iproute
 binaries

From: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:43:36 -0500

> On 11/26/06, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > [NET_SCHED]: policer: restore compatibility with old iproute binaries
> >
> > The tc actions increased the size of struct tc_police, which broke
> > compatibility with old iproute binaries since both the act_police
> > and the old NET_CLS_POLICE code check for an exact size match.
> >
> > Since the new members are not even used, the simple fix is to also
> > accept the size of the old structure. Dumping is not affected since
> > old userspace will receive a bigger structure, which is handled fine.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> 
> 
> Sorry, couldnt respond sooner. Was travelling and overloaded.
> Looks good although i havent run any of my tests. I will at some point.
> 
> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi  Salim

Applied to net-2.6.20, and I'll push this to -stable too.

Thanks everyone.
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