Re: [PATCH v2 net 0/4] Do not use RT_TOS for IPv6 flowlabel

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On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 02:09:31PM +0200, Matthias May wrote:
> According to Guillaume Nault RT_TOS should never be used for IPv6.
> 
> Quote:
> RT_TOS() is an old macro used to interprete IPv4 TOS as described in
> the obsolete RFC 1349. It's conceptually wrong to use it even in IPv4
> code, although, given the current state of the code, most of the
> existing calls have no consequence.
> 
> But using RT_TOS() in IPv6 code is always a bug: IPv6 never had a "TOS"
> field to be interpreted the RFC 1349 way. There's no historical
> compatibility to worry about.

Apart from the not so informative commit messages, I'm fine with this
series. Please keep my acked-by on all patches if you send a v3.

Thanks again for fixing this.

Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>  - Fix spacing of "Fixes" tag.
>  - Add missing CCs
> 
> Matthias May (4):
>   geneve: do not use RT_TOS for IPv6 flowlabel
>   vxlan: do not use RT_TOS for IPv6 flowlabel
>   mlx5: do not use RT_TOS for IPv6 flowlabel
>   ipv6: do not use RT_TOS for IPv6 flowlabel
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc_tun.c | 4 ++--
>  drivers/net/geneve.c                                | 3 +--
>  drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c                      | 2 +-
>  net/ipv6/ip6_output.c                               | 3 +--
>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.35.1
> 




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