On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The XTS tweak (or IV) was initialized differently on little endian and > big endian systems. Because the ciphertext depends on the XTS tweak, it > was not possible to use an encrypted filesystem created by a little > endian system on a big endian system and vice versa, even if they shared > the same PAGE_SIZE. Fix this by always using little endian. > > This will break hypothetical big endian users of ext4 or f2fs > encryption. However, all users we are aware of are little endian, and > it's believed that "real" big endian users are unlikely to exist yet. > So this might as well be fixed now before it's too late. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
