On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 02:26:33PM +0100, Petr Malat wrote:
> Commit 978aa0474115 ("sctp: fix some type cast warnings introduced since
> very beginning")' broke err reading from sctp_arg, because it reads the
> value as 32-bit integer, although the value is stored as 16-bit integer.
> Later this value is passed to the userspace in 16-bit variable, thus the
> user always gets 0 on big-endian platforms. Fix it by reading the __u16
> field of sctp_arg union, as reading err field would produce a sparse
> warning.
Makes sense.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Malat <oss@xxxxxxxxx>
Then, it also needs:
Fixes: 978aa0474115 ("sctp: fix some type cast warnings introduced since very beginning")'
Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx>
(If the maintainers can't add the Fixes tag above, please keep the ack
on the v2)
Thanks.
