[PATCH] scsi: PC partition tables are little endian

[Christoph Hellwig]

As sparse correctly pointed out scsi_partsize should use get_unaligned_le32
to read PC partition tables from disk, as they are little endian.

The result of this bug is that we returned incorrect geometries on big
endian systems when using the scsicam variant. Which probably doesn't
matter as only old x86 systems every cared about the geometry.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <***@lst.de>
---
drivers/scsi/scsicam.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsicam.c b/drivers/scsi/scsicam.c
index 92d24d6..910f4a7 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsicam.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsicam.c
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ int scsi_partsize(unsigned char *buf, unsigned long capacity,
end_head * end_sector + end_sector;

/* This is the actual _sector_ number at the end */
- logical_end = get_unaligned(&largest->start_sect)
- + get_unaligned(&largest->nr_sects);
+ logical_end = get_unaligned_le32(&largest->start_sect)
+ + get_unaligned_le32(&largest->nr_sects);

/* This is for >1023 cylinders */
ext_cyl = (logical_end - (end_head * end_sector + end_sector))

[Christoph Hellwig]

ping?

Post by Christoph Hellwig
As sparse correctly pointed out scsi_partsize should use get_unaligned_le32
to read PC partition tables from disk, as they are little endian.
The result of this bug is that we returned incorrect geometries on big
endian systems when using the scsicam variant. Which probably doesn't
matter as only old x86 systems every cared about the geometry.
---
drivers/scsi/scsicam.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsicam.c b/drivers/scsi/scsicam.c
index 92d24d6..910f4a7 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsicam.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsicam.c
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ int scsi_partsize(unsigned char *buf, unsigned long capacity,
end_head * end_sector + end_sector;
/* This is the actual _sector_ number at the end */
- logical_end = get_unaligned(&largest->start_sect)
- + get_unaligned(&largest->nr_sects);
+ logical_end = get_unaligned_le32(&largest->start_sect)
+ + get_unaligned_le32(&largest->nr_sects);
/* This is for >1023 cylinders */
ext_cyl = (logical_end - (end_head * end_sector + end_sector))
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[Hannes Reinecke]

ping?

As sparse correctly pointed out scsi_partsize should use get_unalign=

ed_le32

to read PC partition tables from disk, as they are little endian.
The result of this bug is that we returned incorrect geometries on b=

ig

endian systems when using the scsicam variant. Which probably doesn=

't

matter as only old x86 systems every cared about the geometry.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <***@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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[Martin K. Petersen]

Post by Christoph Hellwig
As sparse correctly pointed out scsi_partsize should use
get_unaligned_le32 to read PC partition tables from disk, as they are
little endian.
The result of this bug is that we returned incorrect geometries on
big endian systems when using the scsicam variant. Which probably
doesn't matter as only old x86 systems every cared about the
geometry.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <***@oracle.com>