netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Only store high 16 bits of kernel generated filter priorities

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Message-Id: <20090502.134847.247776351.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 02 May 2009 13:48:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	robert.w.love@...el.com
Cc:	hadi@...erus.ca, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Only store high 16 bits of kernel generated
 filter priorities

From: Robert Love <robert.w.love@...el.com>
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 13:43:20 -0700

> The kernel should only be using the high 16 bits of a kernel
> generated priority. Filter priorities in all other cases only
> use the upper 16 bits of the u32 'prio' field of 'struct tcf_proto',
> but when the kernel generates the priority of a filter is saves all
> 32 bits which can result in incorrect lookup failures when a filter
> needs to be deleted or modified.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@...el.com>

Applied, thanks Robert!
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