Re: [PATCH nf-next 0/5] netfilter: Prepare netfilter to future .flowi4_tos conversion.

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On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 05:03:16PM +0100, Guillaume Nault wrote:
> There are multiple occasions where Netfilter code needs to perform
> route lookups and initialise struct flowi4. As we're in the process of
> converting the .flowi4_tos field to dscp_t, we need to convert the
> users so that they have a dscp_t value at hand, rather than a __u8.
> 
> All netfilter users get the DSCP (TOS) value from IPv4 packet headers.
> So we just need to use the new ip4h_dscp() helper to get a dscp_t
> variable.
> 
> Converting .flowi4_tos to dscp_t will allow to detect regressions where
> ECN bits are mistakenly treated as DSCP when doing route lookups.

Series applied, thanks




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