Christoph, can you comment on what Steve said to my patch which is exactly
the same as yours acl-endianess-annotations.patch?
============================================================================
From: Steven French <[email protected]>
You may be correct, but making the in memory representations of these
structions little endian seems wrong and I would be surprised if it were
little endian, but I have not had time to think through what happens when a
local filesystem takes an existing hard drive with ACLs on various inodes
and moves the drive from a little endian to a big endian machine and the
endian implications on this structure.
Although the representation on the wire for the cifs protocol is clearly
little endian for the acl entries, I am uncomfortable with changes to the
in memory representation until I do more checking.
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--- 25/include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h~acl-endianess-annotations
+++ 25-akpm/include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@
#define ACL_UNDEFINED_ID (-1)
typedef struct {
- __u16 e_tag;
- __u16 e_perm;
- __u32 e_id;
+ __le16 e_tag;
+ __le16 e_perm;
+ __le32 e_id;
} posix_acl_xattr_entry;
typedef struct {
- __u32 a_version;
+ __le32 a_version;
posix_acl_xattr_entry a_entries[0];
} posix_acl_xattr_header;
-
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