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[NETFILTER]: xt_iprange: fix subtraction-based comparison

The host address parts need to be converted to host-endian first
before arithmetic makes any sense on them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jan Engelhardt 17 years ago
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      net/netfilter/xt_iprange.c

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net/netfilter/xt_iprange.c

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ iprange_ipv6_sub(const struct in6_addr *a, const struct in6_addr *b)
 	int r;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < 4; ++i) {
-		r = (__force u32)a->s6_addr32[i] - (__force u32)b->s6_addr32[i];
+		r = ntohl(a->s6_addr32[i]) - ntohl(b->s6_addr32[i]);
 		if (r != 0)
 			return r;
 	}