linux-kernel - Re: [[PATCH] fix an endianness bug in ext4_encrypted

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Date:	Thu, 26 Nov 2015 15:21:44 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [[PATCH] fix an endianness bug in ext4_encrypted_zeroout()

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 04:04:34PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> ex->ee_block is not host-endian (note that accesses of other fields
> of *ex right next to that line go through the helpers that do proper
> conversion from little-endian to host-endian; it might make sense
> to add similar for ->ee_block to avoid reintroducing that kind of
> bugs...)
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.1+
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Thanks for catching this!   Applied.

							- Ted
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