This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ceph: fix endianness bug in frag_tree_split_cmp to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ceph-fix-endianness-bug-in-frag_tree_split_cmp.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fe2ed42517533068ac03eed5630fffafff27eacf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:42:39 -0500 Subject: ceph: fix endianness bug in frag_tree_split_cmp From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> commit fe2ed42517533068ac03eed5630fffafff27eacf upstream. sparse says: fs/ceph/inode.c:308:36: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types) fs/ceph/inode.c:308:36: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] a fs/ceph/inode.c:308:36: got restricted __le32 [usertype] frag fs/ceph/inode.c:308:46: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types) fs/ceph/inode.c:308:46: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] b fs/ceph/inode.c:308:46: got restricted __le32 [usertype] frag We need to convert these values to host-endian before calling the comparator. Fixes: a407846ef7c6 ("ceph: don't assume frag tree splits in mds reply are sorted") Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/inode.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ceph/inode.c +++ b/fs/ceph/inode.c @@ -305,7 +305,8 @@ static int frag_tree_split_cmp(const voi { struct ceph_frag_tree_split *ls = (struct ceph_frag_tree_split*)l; struct ceph_frag_tree_split *rs = (struct ceph_frag_tree_split*)r; - return ceph_frag_compare(ls->frag, rs->frag); + return ceph_frag_compare(le32_to_cpu(ls->frag), + le32_to_cpu(rs->frag)); } static bool is_frag_child(u32 f, struct ceph_inode_frag *frag) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ceph-fix-endianness-of-getattr-mask-in-ceph_d_revalidate.patch queue-4.9/ceph-fix-endianness-bug-in-frag_tree_split_cmp.patch queue-4.9/ceph-fix-bad-endianness-handling-in-parse_reply_info_extra.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html