Re: [PATCH] MPI: Endianness fix

From	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] MPI: Endianness fix
Date	2016-02-27 20:40 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 02:46:59PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> The limbs are integers in the host endianness, so we can't simply
> iterate over the individual bytes. The current code happens to work on
> little-endian, because the order of the limbs in the MPI array is the
> same as the order of the bytes in each limb, but it breaks on
> big-endian.
> 
> Fixes: 0f74fbf77d45 ("MPI: Fix mpi_read_buffer")
> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>

Applied.
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