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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2013-03-13 14:59:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-03-13 15:21:48 -0700
commit29ba06b9ed51d49dea6c79c3c16b961d661262bd (patch)
tree4885667d68e9f55ccf5f0f515b5bf9d538de177a /include
parent51b154ed5289682364b830858a4a1ca47fcd04e7 (diff)
downloadlinux-29ba06b9ed51d49dea6c79c3c16b961d661262bd.tar.bz2
UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in linux/acct.h
In the UAPI header files, __BIG_ENDIAN and __LITTLE_ENDIAN must be compared against __BYTE_ORDER in preprocessor conditionals where these are exposed to userspace (that is they're not inside __KERNEL__ conditionals). However, in the main kernel the norm is to check for "defined(__XXX_ENDIAN)" rather than comparing against __BYTE_ORDER and this has incorrectly leaked into the userspace headers. The definition of ACCT_BYTEORDER in linux/acct.h is wrong in this way. Note that userspace will likely interpret this incorrectly as the big-endian variant on little-endian machines - depending on header inclusion order. [!!!] NOTE [!!!] This patch may adversely change the userspace API. It might be better to fix the value of ACCT_BYTEORDER. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/acct.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/acct.h b/include/uapi/linux/acct.h
index 11b6ca3e0873..df2f9a0bba6a 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/acct.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/acct.h
@@ -107,10 +107,12 @@ struct acct_v3
#define ACORE 0x08 /* ... dumped core */
#define AXSIG 0x10 /* ... was killed by a signal */
-#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
+#if defined(__BYTE_ORDER) ? __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN : defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
#define ACCT_BYTEORDER 0x80 /* accounting file is big endian */
-#else
+#elif defined(__BYTE_ORDER) ? __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN : defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN)
#define ACCT_BYTEORDER 0x00 /* accounting file is little endian */
+#else
+#error unspecified endianness
#endif
#ifndef __KERNEL__