From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Sparse flags this as suspicious, because this compares integer with a be16 with no conversion. Its a compat check for old userspace that sends host byte order, so force a be16 cast here. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c index 2f7c477fc9e7..c24b1240908f 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ static void nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh) nfgenmsg = nlmsg_data(nlh); skb_pull(skb, msglen); /* Work around old nft using host byte order */ - if (nfgenmsg->res_id == NFNL_SUBSYS_NFTABLES) + if (nfgenmsg->res_id == (__force __be16)NFNL_SUBSYS_NFTABLES) res_id = NFNL_SUBSYS_NFTABLES; else res_id = ntohs(nfgenmsg->res_id); -- 2.30.2
