netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] flow_dissector: Fix function argument ordering dependency

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Date:	Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:20:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tom@...bertland.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] flow_dissector: Fix function argument
 ordering dependency

From: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 18:11:04 -0700

> Commit c6cc1ca7f4d70c ("flowi: Abstract out functions to get flow hash
> based on flowi") introduced a bug in __skb_set_sw_hash where we
> require a dependency on evaluating arguments in a function in order.
> There is no such ordering enforced in C, so this incorrect. This
> patch fixes that by splitting out the arguments. This bug was
> found via a compiler warning that keys may be uninitialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>

Applied.
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