On Thu, 26 May 2011 23:48:45 -0500
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?
>
> 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} };
> + 1, 1, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5}, {cpu_to_le32(11)} };
^^^^^^^^^
This will break on big-endian arches. You need to use
__constant_cpu_to_le32() instead.
> /* 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]))
> return 1;
> else
> return -1;
>
>
--
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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