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UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in linux/raid/md_p.h

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In the UAPI header files, __BIG_ENDIAN and __LITTLE_ENDIAN must be
compared against __BYTE_ORDER in preprocessor conditionals where these are
exposed to userspace (that is they're not inside __KERNEL__ conditionals).

However, in the main kernel the norm is to check for
"defined(__XXX_ENDIAN)" rather than comparing against __BYTE_ORDER and
this has incorrectly leaked into the userspace headers.

The definition of struct mdp_superblock_s in linux/raid/md_p.h is wrong in
this way.  Note that userspace will likely interpret the ordering of the
fields incorrectly as the big-endian variant on a little-endian machines -
depending on header inclusion order.

[!!!] NOTE [!!!]  This patch may adversely change the userspace API.  It might
be better to fix the ordering of events_hi, events_lo, cp_events_hi and
cp_events_lo in struct mdp_superblock_s / typedef mdp_super_t.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells 2013-03-13 14:59:47 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 29ba06b9ed
commit ca044f9a9e
1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -145,16 +145,18 @@ typedef struct mdp_superblock_s {
__u32 failed_disks; /* 4 Number of failed disks */
__u32 spare_disks; /* 5 Number of spare disks */
__u32 sb_csum; /* 6 checksum of the whole superblock */
#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
#if defined(__BYTE_ORDER) ? __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN : defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
__u32 events_hi; /* 7 high-order of superblock update count */
__u32 events_lo; /* 8 low-order of superblock update count */
__u32 cp_events_hi; /* 9 high-order of checkpoint update count */
__u32 cp_events_lo; /* 10 low-order of checkpoint update count */
#else
#elif defined(__BYTE_ORDER) ? __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN : defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN)
__u32 events_lo; /* 7 low-order of superblock update count */
__u32 events_hi; /* 8 high-order of superblock update count */
__u32 cp_events_lo; /* 9 low-order of checkpoint update count */
__u32 cp_events_hi; /* 10 high-order of checkpoint update count */
#else
#error unspecified endianness
#endif
__u32 recovery_cp; /* 11 recovery checkpoint sector count */
/* There are only valid for minor_version > 90 */