linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] Remove VLAIS usage from JBD2 code

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Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2012 15:19:12 -0800
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Behan Webster <behanw@...verseincode.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Mark Charlebois <charlebm@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove VLAIS usage from JBD2 code

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:53:07AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Hey Darrick,
> 
> I was looking at this code a bit more closely while applying the
> revised version of this patch --- and this in particular raised a red
> flag for me:
> 
>      *(u32 *)desc.ctx = crc;
>      	   ...
>      return *(u32 *)desc.ctx;
> 
> Does this raise any byte swapping issues?  Looking at how the crc32
> code in crypto/ works, I'm almost certain this is broken on big-endian
> systems, and we need to add le32_to_cup() and cpu_to_le32() calls here.
> 
> Am I missing something?

crc32_[bl]e_generic() in lib/crc32.c contains the appropriate be/le-to-cpu
conversion calls to ensure that the results are always returned in cpu-endian
format.  The crypto/crc32.c file is basically just a crypto-hash wrapper around
the lib/crc32.c code, and don't touch the endianness at all.  The ext4 code
receives the results from the crypto code in cpu-endian format and always
converts it to (or from) little-endian format when accessing disk structures.

As far as e2fsprogs, it leaves the checksums in le format, only converting it
to cpu-endian format when verifying or setting the checksum.

--D
> 
> 	     	     	    		  - Ted
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