netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: netdevsim: fix byte order on ipsec debugfs file

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Date:   Tue, 8 Mar 2022 21:58:51 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@...onical.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, shuah@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: netdevsim: fix byte order on ipsec debugfs file

On Tue,  8 Mar 2022 14:51:06 +0100 Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
> When adding a new xfrm state, the data provided via struct xfrm_state
> is stored in network byte order. This needs to be taken into
> consideration when exporting the SAs data to userspace via debugfs,
> otherwise the content will depend on the system endianness. Fix this by
> converting all multi-byte fields from network to host order.
> 
> Also fix the selftest script which was expecting the data as exported by
> a little-endian system, which was inverted.
> 
> Fixes: 7699353da875 ("netdevsim: add ipsec offload testing")
> Fixes: 2766a11161cc ("selftests: rtnetlink: add ipsec offload API test")
> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@...onical.com>

Then the struct members need to have the correct types, 
as is this patch adds sparse warnings (build with C=1).