netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipcomp: Convert struct xt

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Date:	Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:14:03 +0100
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Fan Du <fan.du@...driver.com>
Cc:	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipcomp: Convert struct xt_ipcomp spis into
 16bits

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:55:42AM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
> On 2014年01月18日 20:24, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> >Didn't you find any way to fix this without change the layout of
> >xt_ipcomp?
> 
> My bad for not catching this in the initial ipcomp version.
> It would be easier to just use ntohs here to ease sparse checking.
> 
> 
> From dbf796e63d600256fd40000669b83227ddccebc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Fan Du <fan.du@...driver.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:42:12 +0800
> Subject: [PATCHv2 net-next] ipcomp: Use ntohs to ease sparse warning
> 
> 0-DAY kernel build testing backend reported:
> 
> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
> 
> >> >> net/netfilter/xt_ipcomp.c:63:26: sparse: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
> >> >> net/netfilter/xt_ipcomp.c:63:26: sparse: cast to restricted __be32
> 
> Fix this by using ntohs without shifting.
> 
> Tested with: make C=1 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__

Applied to nf-next, thanks.
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