Linux Ethernet Bridging - Apr 2007 - [Bridge] [PATCH] BRIDGE: Fix faulty check in br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id()

I did a compile with extra gcc warnings, and found a bug in
net/bridge/br_stp_if.c function br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id():
compare_ether_addr() returns 0 if match, positive if not, so
checking it for negative is wrong. 

Signed-of-by: Mika Kukkonen <mikukkon@iki.fi>

---

 net/bridge/br_stp_if.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
index ac09b6a..08c52c2 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ void br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id(struct
 
 	list_for_each_entry(p, &br->port_list, list) {
 		if (addr == br_mac_zero ||
-		    compare_ether_addr(p->dev->dev_addr, addr) < 0)
+		    compare_ether_addr(p->dev->dev_addr, addr))
 			addr = p->dev->dev_addr;
 
 	}

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:55:27 +0200
mikukkon@iki.fi wrote:
> I did a compile with extra gcc warnings, and found a bug in
> net/bridge/br_stp_if.c function br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id():
> compare_ether_addr() returns 0 if match, positive if not, so
> checking it for negative is wrong. 
> 
> Signed-of-by: Mika Kukkonen <mikukkon@iki.fi>
> 
> ---
> 
>  net/bridge/br_stp_if.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
> index ac09b6a..08c52c2 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ void br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id(struct
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(p, &br->port_list, list) {
>  		if (addr == br_mac_zero ||
> -		    compare_ether_addr(p->dev->dev_addr, addr) < 0)
> +		    compare_ether_addr(p->dev->dev_addr, addr))
>  			addr = p->dev->dev_addr;
>  
>  	}
Actually that compare_ether_addr needs to be replaced by memcmp again.
Because for bridge id calc it wants the min() of all the device addresses.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger