Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: fastopen: use endianness agnostic representation of the cookie

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:32:07AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Use an explicit little endian representation of the fastopen
> cookie, so that the value no longer depends on the endianness
> of the system. This fixes a theoretical issue only, since
> fastopen keys are unlikely to be shared across load balancing
> server farms that are mixed in endiannes, but it might pop up
> in validation/selftests as well, so let's just settle on little
> endian across the board.
> 
> Note that this change only affects big endian systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/tcp.h     |  2 +-
>  net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c | 16 ++++++++--------
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 

What about the TCP_FASTOPEN_KEY option for setsockopt and getsockopt?  Those
APIs treat the key as an array of bytes (let's say it's little endian), so
doesn't it need to be converted to/from the CPU endianness of siphash_key_t?

- Eric