Commit fa520f76 authored by Patrick McHardy's avatar Patrick McHardy Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix tcindex classifier ABI borkage...

[NET_SCHED]: cls_tcindex: fix compatibility breakage

Userspace uses an integer for TCA_TCINDEX_SHIFT, the kernel was changed
to expect and use a u16 value in 2.6.11, which broke compatibility on
big endian machines. Change back to use int.

Reported by Ole Reinartz <ole.reinartz@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent c823d26e
......@@ -245,9 +245,9 @@ tcindex_set_parms(struct tcf_proto *tp, unsigned long base, u32 handle,
}
if (tb[TCA_TCINDEX_SHIFT-1]) {
if (RTA_PAYLOAD(tb[TCA_TCINDEX_SHIFT-1]) < sizeof(u16))
if (RTA_PAYLOAD(tb[TCA_TCINDEX_SHIFT-1]) < sizeof(int))
goto errout;
cp.shift = *(u16 *) RTA_DATA(tb[TCA_TCINDEX_SHIFT-1]);
cp.shift = *(int *) RTA_DATA(tb[TCA_TCINDEX_SHIFT-1]);
}
err = -EBUSY;
......
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