netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: do not check port in sctp_inet6_cmp

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:40:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     marcelo.leitner@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: do not check port in sctp_inet6_cmp_addr

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:16:58 +0800

> What do you think of:
> 
> static int sctp_v6_cmp_addr(const union sctp_addr *addr1,
>                             const union sctp_addr *addr2)
> {
>         return __sctp_v6_cmp_addr(addr1, addr2) &&
>                addr1->v6.sin_port == addr2->v6.sin_port;
> }
> 
> (v6.sin_port and v4.sin_port have the same offset in union sctp_addr,
>  we've exploited this in many places in SCTP)

>From my perspective this is OK.