From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.25]:48383 "EHLO wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726038AbeH3VFW (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:05:22 -0400 Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: sysfs: print ext4_super_block fields as little-endian" failed to apply to 3.18-stable tree To: arnd@arndb.de, adilger@dilger.ca, tytso@mit.edu Cc: From: Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:02:13 -0700 Message-ID: <153564853391185@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The patch below does not apply to the 3.18-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to . thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >>From a4d2aadca184ece182418950d45ba4ffc7b652d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 15:48:00 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: sysfs: print ext4_super_block fields as little-endian 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@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 52c198c6820f ("ext4: add sysfs entry showing whether the fs contains errors") Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o diff --git a/fs/ext4/sysfs.c b/fs/ext4/sysfs.c index f34da0bb8f17..b970a200f20c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/sysfs.c +++ b/fs/ext4/sysfs.c @@ -274,8 +274,12 @@ static ssize_t ext4_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj, 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; @@ -308,7 +312,10 @@ static ssize_t ext4_attr_store(struct kobject *kobj, 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(sbi, buf, len);