netdev - Re: [patch] svcrdma: endian bug in send_write

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:28:21 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Tom Tucker <tom@...ngridcomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] svcrdma: endian bug in send_write_chunks()

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 02:15:59PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 11:21 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: 
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 09:47:22AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > Sparse complains because arg_ch->rs_length is declared as network
> > > endian but we're treating it as CPU endian.
> > 
> > This looks like it would actually change behavior on a little endian
> > architecture, so how did this work before?
> > 
> > >From some quick grepping, I see assignments both of the form
> > 
> > 	...rs_length = ntohl(...)
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > 	...rs_length = htonl(...)
> > 
> > but only see one declaration for a field named rs_length.
> > 
> > So my best guess would be that the code is ugly but working as is, and
> > needs cleanup by someone who knows how this field was intended to be
> > used.
> 
> It looks to me as if rs_handle and rs_offset are being similarly abused.
> Basically, we need a serious clean up in svc_rdma_marshall.c to separate
> out those variables that are in XDR-encoded form and those that are not.

(Here everybody takes one step back and pretends to be engrossed in some
other thread.)

--b.
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