Re: [PATCH][next] net: systemport: fix double shift of a vlan_tci by VLAN_PRIO_SHIFT

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Wed Jul 08 2020 - 16:32:46 EST




On 7/8/2020 11:37 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently the u16 skb->vlan_tci is being right shifted twice by
> VLAN_PRIO_SHIFT, once in the macro skb_vlan_tag_get_pri and explicitly
> by VLAN_PRIO_SHIFT afterwards. The combined shift amount is larger than
> the u16 so the end result is always zero. Remove the second explicit
> shift as this is extraneous.
>
> Fixes: 6e9fdb60d362 ("net: systemport: Add support for VLAN transmit acceleration")
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Operands don't affect result")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>

The change was forward ported from a 4.9 kernel where the shift is not
done, I should have checked the helper usage, thanks!
--
Florian