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| author | Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@gmail.com> | 2019-05-14 15:44:29 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-05-14 19:52:50 -0700 |
| commit | 672cdd56f0ae95069e399db790dbf2e303ac72b7 (patch) | |
| tree | d68d174568a9992051a49a9886e4cca991050a73 /fs/file_table.c | |
| parent | 1dcaa138fc7d87982ccddb7df9e4c30c6cb6eb15 (diff) | |
reiserfs: add comment to explain endianness issue in xattr_hash
csum_partial() gives different results for little-endian and big-endian
hosts. This causes images created on little-endian hosts and mounted on
big endian hosts to see csum mismatches. This causes an endianness bug.
Sparse gives a warning as csum_partial returns a restricted integer type
__wsum_t and xattr_hash expects __u32. This warning acts as a reminder
for this bug and should not be suppressed.
This comment aims to convey these endianness issues.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423161831.GA15387@bharath12345-Inspiron-5559
Signed-off-by: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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