From: Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidore...@hpe.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 09:06:04 -0400

> Roundrobin runner of team driver uses 'unsigned int' variable to count the 
> number of sent_packets.
> Later it is passed to a subroutine team_num_to_port_index(struct team *team, 
> int num) as
> 'num' and when we reach MAXINT (2**31-1), 'num' becomes negative.
> 
> This leads to using incorrect hash-bucket for port lookup and as a result, 
> packets are dropped. The fix
> consists of changing 'int num' to 'unsigned int num'. Testing of a fixed 
> kernel shows that there
> is no packet drop anymore.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidore...@hpe.com>

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