On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:27:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. > Hi Andrew, I will send a patch CCing Al to add a comment explaining these issues. Thanks Bharath
