Commit 672cdd56 authored May 14, 2019 by Bharath Vedartham Committed by Linus Torvalds May 14, 2019

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>

parent 1dcaa138

fs/reiserfs/xattr.c

+9 −0

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		@@ -450,6 +450,15 @@ static struct page reiserfs_get_page(struct inode dir, size_t n)

		static inline __u32 xattr_hash(const char *msg, int len)
		{
		/*
		* csum_partial() gives different results for little-endian and
		* big endian hosts. Images created on little-endian hosts and
		* mounted on big-endian hosts(and vice versa) will see csum mismatches
		* when trying to fetch xattrs. Treating the hash as __wsum_t would
		* lower the frequency of mismatch. This is an endianness bug in
		* reiserfs. The return statement would result in a sparse warning. Do
		* not fix the sparse warning so as to not hide a reminder of the bug.
		*/
		return csum_partial(msg, len, 0);
		}