Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 1/3] ss: allow AF_FAMILY constants >32

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 11:26:53 -0700

On Tue,  3 Oct 2017 13:57:42 -0400
Stefan Hajnoczi <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Linux has more than 32 address families defined in <bits/socket.h>.  Use
> a 64-bit type so all of them can be represented in the filter->families
> bitmask.
> 
> It's easy to introduce bugs when using (1 << AF_FAMILY) because the
> value is 32-bit.  This can produce incorrect results from bitmask
> operations so introduce the FAMILY_MASK() macro to eliminate these bugs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  misc/ss.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/misc/ss.c b/misc/ss.c
> index dd8dfaa4..12a31c90 100644
> --- a/misc/ss.c
> +++ b/misc/ss.c
> @@ -170,55 +170,57 @@ enum {
>  struct filter {
>  	int dbs;
>  	int states;
> -	int families;
> +	__u64 families;

Since this isn't a value that is coming from kernel. It should be uint64_t
rather than __u64.