[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40e: don't truncate match_method assignment
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Sun Dec 11 04:32:18 UTC 2016
From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 13:39:21 -0800
> The .match_method field is a u8, so we shouldn't be casting to a u16,
> and because it is only one byte, we do not need to byte swap anything.
> Just assign the value directly. This avoids issues on Big Endian
> architectures which would have byte swapped and then incorrectly
> truncated the value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>
Applied.
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