[PATCH v6 24/26] powerpc/pseries: Implement secvars for dynamic secure boot

Andrew Donnellan ajd at linux.ibm.com
Mon Feb 13 18:06:36 AEDT 2023


On Fri, 2023-02-10 at 16:23 -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > +       memcpy(&flags, data, sizeof(flags));
> 
> conversion from bytestream to integer: I think in this case it would
> be better to use
> 
> flags = cpu_to_be64p((__u64*)data);
> 
> so that the flags always in hypervisor/big endian format

Thanks for catching this - it turns out we weren't properly testing the
one flag that exists (append vs replace) in our test script, so I
didn't notice this.

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Andrew Donnellan    OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd at linux.ibm.com   IBM Australia Limited


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