Re: [PATCH net] ip6_tunnel, ip6_gre: fix setting of DSCP on encapsulated packets

From: David Miller
Date: Thu May 25 2017 - 15:49:24 EST


From: Peter Dawson <petedaws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 05:46:27 +1000

> On Thu, 25 May 2017 12:11:17 -0400 (EDT)
> David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195661
>>
>> This is not the correct way to use the Fixes: tag.
>>
>> You should specify the commit that introduced the regression
>> between 4.9.x and 4.10.x, and that you are fixing here.
>
> Thanks for your review Dave. I'll resubmit the patch with the following detail and just reference the bugzilla in the main body of the commit comment.
>
> Commit 90427ef5d2a4 ("ipv6: fix flow labels when the traffic class is non-0") caused the regression by masking out the flowlabel which exposed the incorrect the handling of the DSCP portion of the flowlabel in ip6_tunnel and ip6_gre.

Still not correct, you need to use a "Fixes: " tag of the form:

Fixes: 90427ef5d2a4 ("ipv6: fix flow labels when the traffic class is non-0")

And it must appear of the first line of tags, before signoffs and acks,
with no empty lines in between.

Thank you.