linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tpm: use get_unaligned

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Message-ID: <20161203153028.3xaqkamutio5gwgs@intel.com>
Date:   Sat, 3 Dec 2016 17:30:28 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Cc:     tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: use get_unaligned_be32 unaligned buffer access.

Hey,

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 03:34:00PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 01:04:54PM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > Use get_unaligned_be32 as b32_to_cpu doesn't work correctly on
> > all platforms for unaligned access.
> > 
> > The fix doesn't cover all the cases as also some cast
> > structures have members on unaligned addresses.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
> 
> This looks good to me with the exceptio that was pointed out by Jason.
> CC the next version to the linux-security-module. I talked with James
> about this at LPC and since this list does not have too many active
> reviewers it makes sense to cycle all the non-trivial changes through
> that list.

Are you planning to send an updated version of this. Should be a
no-brainer to apply.

/Jarkko