From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:44:00 -0800
> skb->pkt_type is not a bitmask, but contains only value at a time from
> the range defined in include/uapi/linux/if_packet.h.
>
> Checking it like if it was a bitmask of values would also cause
> PACKET_OTHERHOST, PACKET_LOOPBACK and PACKET_FASTROUTE to be matched by this
> check since their lower 2 bits are also set, although that does not fix a real
> bug due to how the checks are used, it is still potentially confusing.
>
> This bogus check was introduced in commit 815cccbf ("ixgbe: add setlink,
> getlink support to ixgbe and ixgbevf").
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Intel folks, I assume you will pick this up?
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