netdev - Re: [PATCH] iptables/man: IPv6 TOS mangling fix was backported to 2.6.35-longterm too

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Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:16:39 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@....ntt.co.jp>
cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Netfilter Developer Mailing List 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Networking Developer Mailing List 
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iptables/man: IPv6 TOS mangling fix was backported to
 2.6.35-longterm too

On Wednesday 2011-08-24 04:55, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote:

>Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote:
>> Update man page accordingly.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@....ntt.co.jp>
>> ---
>> 
>> -longterm releases 2.6.32.42 (or later) and 2.6.33.15 (or later), there is a bug
>> -whereby IPv6 TOS mangling does not behave as documented and differs from the
>> -IPv4 version. The TOS mask indicates the bits one wants to zero out, so it needs
>> -to be inverted before applying it to the original TOS field. However, the
>> +longterm releases 2.6.32 (>=.42), 2.6.33 (>=.15), and 2.6.35 (>=.14), there is
>> +a bug whereby IPv6 TOS mangling does not behave as documented and differs from
>> +the IPv4 version. The TOS mask indicates the bits one wants to zero out, so it
>> +needs to be inverted before applying it to the original TOS field. However, the
>>  aformentioned kernels forgo the inversion which breaks --set-tos and its
>>  mnemonics.
>
>Ping?

Patch picked up now.
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