Re: [PATCH] libcrc32c: keep intermediate crc state in cpu order

[Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>]

On Nov. 08, 2007, 20:41 +0200, Dave Jiang <djiang@mvista.com> wrote:
> Resolved my issue with BE open-iscsi initiator and LE IET target. Thanks!

Super!  Thanks for testing!

And many thanks to Tomo for identifying the byte-order problem
in the crypto code.

Benny


> 
> Benny Halevy wrote:
>> crypto/crc32.c:chksum_final() is computing the digest as
>> *(__le32 *)out = ~cpu_to_le32(mctx->crc);
>> so the low-level crc32c_le routines should just keep
>> the crc in cpu order, otherwise it is getting swabbed
>> one too many times on big-endian machines.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@fs1.bhalevy.com>
>> ---
>>  lib/libcrc32c.c |    7 ++-----
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/libcrc32c.c b/lib/libcrc32c.c
>> index 802f11f..b5c3287 100644
>> --- a/lib/libcrc32c.c
>> +++ b/lib/libcrc32c.c
>> @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
>>  #include <linux/crc32c.h>
>>  #include <linux/compiler.h>
>>  #include <linux/module.h>
>> -#include <asm/byteorder.h>
>>  
>>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Clay Haapala <chaapala@cisco.com>");
>>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations");
>> @@ -161,15 +160,13 @@ static const u32 crc32c_table[256] = {
>>   */
>>  
>>  u32 __pure
>> -crc32c_le(u32 seed, unsigned char const *data, size_t length)
>> +crc32c_le(u32 crc, unsigned char const *data, size_t length)
>>  {
>> -	u32 crc = __cpu_to_le32(seed);
>> -	
>>  	while (length--)
>>  		crc =
>>  		    crc32c_table[(crc ^ *data++) & 0xFFL] ^ (crc >> 8);
>>  
>> -	return __le32_to_cpu(crc);
>> +	return crc;
>>  }
>>  
>>  #endif	/* CRC_LE_BITS == 8 */
> 
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