On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Steve French <[email protected]> wrote:
> Shirish - below is a patch to fix a sparse warning in the cifsacl
> code.  The change around line 458 is cosmetic (doesn't look like the
> original code caused a problem but at least this quiets sparse) but
> doesn't sid_authusers have an endian error.   How far back does this
> bug go - does it affect much?

Yes, sid_authusers have an endian error.

>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
> index 076b69c..5f02b4e 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static const struct cifs_sid sid_everyone = {
>        1, 1, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1}, {0} };
>  /* security id for Authenticated Users system group */
>  static const struct cifs_sid sid_authusers = {
> -       1, 1, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5}, {11} };

This variable was addedd in commit 2fbc2f1729e785a7b2faf9d8d60926bb1ff62af0

> +       1, 1, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5}, {cpu_to_le32(11)} };
>  /* group users */
>  static const struct cifs_sid sid_user = {1, 2 , {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5}, {} };
>
> @@ -458,7 +458,8 @@ int compare_sids(const struct cifs_sid *ctsid,
> const struct cifs_sid *cwsid)
>        if (num_subauth) {
>                for (i = 0; i < num_subauth; ++i) {
>                        if (ctsid->sub_auth[i] != cwsid->sub_auth[i]) {
> -                               if (ctsid->sub_auth[i] > cwsid->sub_auth[i])
> +                               if (le32_to_cpu(ctsid->sub_auth[i]) >
> +                                       le32_to_cpu(cwsid->sub_auth[i]))

This code has been around for quite some time.

>                                        return 1;
>                                else
>                                        return -1;
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
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