The patch titled
Subject: reiserfs-add-comment-to-explain-endianness-issue-in-xattr_hash-checkpatch-fixes
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
reiserfs-add-comment-to-explain-endianness-issue-in-xattr_hash-checkpatch-fixes.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/reiserfs-add-comment-to-explain-endianness-issue-in-xattr_hash-checkpatch-fixes.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/reiserfs-add-comment-to-explain-endianness-issue-in-xattr_hash-checkpatch-fixes.patch
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: reiserfs-add-comment-to-explain-endianness-issue-in-xattr_hash-checkpatch-fixes
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#36: FILE: fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:458:
+ * lower the frequency of mismatch. This is an endianness bug in reiserfs.
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#37: FILE: fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:459:
+ * The return statement would result in a sparse warning. Do not fix the sparse
total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 16 lines checked
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Cc: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c~reiserfs-add-comment-to-explain-endianness-issue-in-xattr_hash-checkpatch-fixes
+++ a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -455,11 +455,10 @@ static inline __u32 xattr_hash(const cha
* big endian hosts. Images created on little-endian hosts and
* mounted on big-endian hosts(and vice versa) will see csum mismatches
* when trying to fetch xattrs. Treating the hash as __wsum_t would
- * lower the frequency of mismatch. This is an endianness bug in reiserfs.
- * The return statement would result in a sparse warning. Do not fix the sparse
- * warning so as to not hide the reminder of the bug.
+ * lower the frequency of mismatch. This is an endianness bug in
+ * reiserfs. The return statement would result in a sparse warning. Do
+ * not fix the sparse warning so as to not hide a reminder of the bug.
*/
-
return csum_partial(msg, len, 0);
}
_
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