linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MPI: Endianness fix

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Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:33:28 +0100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
Cc:	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MPI: Endianness fix

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 02:46:59PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> The limbs are integers in the host endianness, so we can't simply
> iterate over the individual bytes. The current code happens to work on
> little-endian, because the order of the limbs in the MPI array is the
> same as the order of the bytes in each limb, but it breaks on
> big-endian.
> 
> Fixes: 0f74fbf77d45 ("MPI: Fix mpi_read_buffer")
> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>

Applied.
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