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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c index 32d8986c26fb..b5b26d8a192c 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c @@ -450,6 +450,15 @@ fail: static inline __u32 xattr_hash(const char *msg, int len) { + /* + * csum_partial() gives different results for little-endian and + * big endian hosts. Images created on little-endian hosts and + * mounted on big-endian hosts(and vice versa) will see csum mismatches + * when trying to fetch xattrs. Treating the hash as __wsum_t would + * lower the frequency of mismatch. This is an endianness bug in + * reiserfs. The return statement would result in a sparse warning. Do + * not fix the sparse warning so as to not hide a reminder of the bug. + */ return csum_partial(msg, len, 0); } |