4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
commit a4d2aadca184ece182418950d45ba4ffc7b652d2 upstream.
While working on extended rand for last_error/first_error timestamps,
I noticed that the endianess is wrong; we access the little-endian
fields in struct ext4_super_block as native-endian when we print them.
This adds a special case in ext4_attr_show() and ext4_attr_store()
to byteswap the superblock fields if needed.
In older kernels, this code was part of super.c, it got moved to
sysfs.c in linux-4.4.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 52c198c6820f ("ext4: add sysfs entry showing whether the fs contains errors")
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/sysfs.c | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
@@ -277,8 +277,12 @@ static ssize_t ext4_attr_show(struct kob
case attr_pointer_ui:
if (!ptr)
return 0;
- return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%u\n",
- *((unsigned int *) ptr));
+ if (a->attr_ptr == ptr_ext4_super_block_offset)
+ return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%u\n",
+ le32_to_cpup(ptr));
+ else
+ return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%u\n",
+ *((unsigned int *) ptr));
case attr_pointer_atomic:
if (!ptr)
return 0;
@@ -311,7 +315,10 @@ static ssize_t ext4_attr_store(struct ko
ret = kstrtoul(skip_spaces(buf), 0, &t);
if (ret)
return ret;
- *((unsigned int *) ptr) = t;
+ if (a->attr_ptr == ptr_ext4_super_block_offset)
+ *((__le32 *) ptr) = cpu_to_le32(t);
+ else
+ *((unsigned int *) ptr) = t;
return len;
case attr_inode_readahead:
return inode_readahead_blks_store(a, sbi, buf, len);
