netdev - Re: [PATCH] mellanox: fix the dport endianness in call of __inet6_lookup

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Message-Id: <20180806.103258.2021871359763559506.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 06 Aug 2018 10:32:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
Cc:     borisp@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mellanox: fix the dport endianness in call of
 __inet6_lookup_established()

From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2018 21:41:27 +0100

> __inet6_lookup_established() expect th->dport passed in host-endian,
> not net-endian.  The reason is microoptimization in __inet6_lookup(),
> but if you use the lower-level helpers, you have to play by their
> rules...
>     
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Applied to net-next, thanks Al.