netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net 1/1] net sched: fix encoding to use real length

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Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2016 21:02:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jhs@...atatu.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net 1/1] net sched: fix encoding to use real length

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 07:10:20 -0400

> From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
> 
> Encoding of the metadata was using the padded length as opposed to
> the real length of the data which is a bug per specification.
> This has not been an issue todate because all metadatum specified
> so far has been 32 bit where aligned and data length are the same width.
> This also includes a bug fix for validating the length of a u16 field.
> But since there is no metadata of size u16 yes we are fine to include it
> here.
> 
> While at it get rid of magic numbers.
> 
> Fixes: ef6980b6becb ("net sched: introduce IFE action")
> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>

Applied.