Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:04:12 +0200 | From | Maxime Chevallier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net v2] net: mvpp2: prs: Don't override the sign bit in SRAM parser shift |
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Hello David,
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:42:45 +0200 Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> wrote:
>The Header Parser allows identifying various fields in the packet >headers, used for various kind of filtering and classification >steps. > >This is a re-entrant process, where the offset in the packet header >depends on the previous lookup results. This offset is represented in >the SRAM results of the TCAM, as a shift to be operated. > >This shift can be negative in some cases, such as in IPv6 parsing. > >This commit prevents overriding the sign bit when setting the shift >value, which could cause instabilities when parsing IPv6 flows. > >Fixes: 3f518509dedc ("ethernet: Add new driver for Marvell Armada 375 network unit") >Suggested-by: Alan Winkowski <walan@marvell.com> >Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> >--- >V2 : Fix a typo in the commit log, reported by Sergei.
I see that this patch was set as "Accepted" on patchwork, but hasn't made it to -net, I was wondering if this patch slipped through the cracks :)
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1119311/
Thanks,
Maxime
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