The patch titled Subject: UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in linux/raid/md_p.h has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is uapi-fix-endianness-conditionals-in-linux-raid-md_ph.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in linux/raid/md_p.h 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@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/uapi/linux/raid/md_p.h | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/uapi/linux/raid/md_p.h~uapi-fix-endianness-conditionals-in-linux-raid-md_ph include/uapi/linux/raid/md_p.h --- a/include/uapi/linux/raid/md_p.h~uapi-fix-endianness-conditionals-in-linux-raid-md_ph +++ a/include/uapi/linux/raid/md_p.h @@ -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 */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch uapi-fix-endianness-conditionals-in-linux-aio_abih.patch uapi-fix-endianness-conditionals-in-linux-accth.patch uapi-fix-endianness-conditionals-in-linux-raid-md_ph.patch uapi-fix-endianness-conditionals-in-m32rs-asm-stath.patch debug_locksh-make-warning-more-verbose.patch mm-remove-free_area_cache.patch ptrace-add-ability-to-retrieve-signals-without-removing-from-a-queue-v4.patch selftest-add-a-test-case-for-ptrace_peeksiginfo.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html