On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:02:35 +0100 Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IOW, what sparse has caught here is a genuine endianness bug; images > created on little-endian host and mounted on big-endian (or vice > versa) will see csum mismatches when trying to fetch xattrs. OK, thanks. I'll drop the patch - we shouldn't hide that reminder of a bug. Perhaps someone could prepare a patch which adds a comment explaining these issues, so someone else doesn't try to "fix" the sparse warning.