netdev - Re: [PATCH] endianness bug in ip6

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Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:10:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	viro@....linux.org.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] endianness bug in ip6_tunnel

From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:12:31 +0100

> IPV6_TCLASS_MASK is net-endian; what happens here is that we take
> a value and shove it into bits 20--27 of net-endian 32bit word.
> IOW, it's misannotated (it's really htonl, not ntohl) *and* the
> mask should be applied after conversion to net-endian, not before it.
> The former is harmless, the latter gives the wrong value on little-endian;
> As the matter of fact, on l-e it gives 0 - IPV6_TCLASS_MASK will be
> htonl(0x0ff00000), i.e. on little-endian we have (something << 20) & 0xff0...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Applied, thanks Al.
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