netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xt

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2012 17:24:39 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
Cc:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@...csson.com>,
	kaber@...sh.net, jengelh@...ozas.de,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	dan.carpenter@...cle.com, hans@...illstrom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_HMARK: endian bugs

On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 17:05 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2012-05-14 16:40, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 
> >> -		if (t->uports.p16.dst < t->uports.p16.src)
> >> +		if (ntohs(t->uports.p16.dst) < ntohs(t->uports.p16.src))
> >
> >Do we really need this to make sparse happy?
> 
> You need it to make *maths* happy.
> 
> Consider
> 
> 	384 < 65407
> 
> but
> 
> 	    ntohs(384) > ntohs(65407)
> 	<=> 32769 > 32767
> --

Doesnt matter at all in this context.

Take a look at 

void __skb_get_rxhash(struct sk_buff *skb)

if ((__force u16)keys.port16[1] < (__force u16)keys.port16[0])
	swap(...)




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