On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:39 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Feb 06, 2007 16:12 +0100, Johann Lombardi wrote:
> > > + if (EXT3_SB(sb)->s_want_extra_isize <
> > > + le32_to_cpu(es->s_min_extra_isize))
> > ^^
> > > + EXT3_SB(sb)->s_want_extra_isize =
> > > +
> > > le32_to_cpu(es->s_min_extra_isize);
> > ^^
> > Since es->s_{min,want}_extra_isize are both __u16 (BTW, shouldn't it be
> > __le16?), I think you should use le16_to_cpu() instead of le32_to_cpu().
>
> You are right - this works fine on little endian systems, but fails on
> big endian systems where you will get the other half of the word.
>
> This has been a bug in several places already, and I wonder if the
> le*_to_cpu() and cpu_to_le*() macros shouldn't do some type checking
> instead of just casting the variable to the specified type?
I think that sparse will catch this. To get the endian checks you need
to do something like this:
make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"'
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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