This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tipc: convert dest node's address to network order
to the 5.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tipc-convert-dest-node-s-address-to-network-order.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 197b24470904d04bc4523748104fb47bbaf9fa5d
Author: Hoang Le <hoang.h.le@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Mar 11 10:33:22 2021 +0700
tipc: convert dest node's address to network order
[ Upstream commit 1980d37565061ab44bdc2f9e4da477d3b9752e81 ]
(struct tipc_link_info)->dest is in network order (__be32), so we must
convert the value to network order before assigning. The problem detected
by sparse:
net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:699:24: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:699:24: expected restricted __be32 [usertype] dest
net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:699:24: got int
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hoang Le <hoang.h.le@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index 5a1ce64039f7..0749df80454d 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_link_dump(struct tipc_nl_compat_msg *msg,
if (err)
return err;
- link_info.dest = nla_get_flag(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_DEST]);
+ link_info.dest = htonl(nla_get_flag(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_DEST]));
link_info.up = htonl(nla_get_flag(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_UP]));
nla_strscpy(link_info.str, link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME],
TIPC_MAX_LINK_NAME);
