ibmvtpm byteswapping inconsistency
Jason Gunthorpe
jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Fri Jan 27 09:05:36 AEDT 2017
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 09:22:48PM +0100, Michal Such??nek wrote:
> This is repeated a few times in the driver so I added memset to quiet
> gcc and make behavior deterministic in case the unused fields get some
> meaning in the future.
Yep, reserved certainly needs to be zeroed.. Can you send a patch?
memset is overkill...
> However, in tpm_ibmvtpm_send the structure is initialized as
>
> struct ibmvtpm_crq crq;
> __be64 *word = (__be64 *)&crq;
> ...
> crq.valid = (u8)IBMVTPM_VALID_CMD;
> crq.msg = (u8)VTPM_TPM_COMMAND;
> crq.len = cpu_to_be16(count);
> crq.data = cpu_to_be32(ibmvtpm->rtce_dma_handle);
>
> and submitted with
>
> rc = ibmvtpm_send_crq(ibmvtpm->vdev, be64_to_cpu(word[0]),
> be64_to_cpu(word[1]));
> meaning it is swapped twice.
No idea, Nayna may know.
My guess is that '__be64 *word' should be 'u64 *word'...
Jason
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