From: Andrei Gherzan <andrei.gherzan@canonical.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>,
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] netdevsim: fix IPsec debugfs byte order
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 14:37:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqFhJbNp5qqlehD0@sprawlopolis> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908140325.13367-1-andrei.gherzan@canonical.com>
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On 26/09/08 03:03PM, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> The netdevsim IPsec debugfs file (used by selftests/net/rtnetlink.sh's
> ipsec_offload subtest) prints the SA salt and key in host CPU byte
> order instead of network byte order, because nsim_sa.key[]/salt are
> typed as plain u32 and printed directly with "%08x". This makes the
> reported values differ between little-endian and big-endian hosts for
> the same underlying key material, and breaks the selftest on
> big-endian (e.g. s390x), which hardcodes the little-endian output.
>
> A driver-side fix was proposed in 2022 but stalled in review: keeping
> the fields as plain u32 meant sparse could not validate the added
> ntohl()/be32_to_cpu() conversions.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220308135106.890270-1-kleber.souza@canonical.com/
>
> This series:
>
> 1/2 retypes nsim_sa.key[]/salt to __be32 (matching the existing
> __be32 ipaddr[] field) and converts with be32_to_cpu() before
> printing, so the debugfs output is now network-order on every
> host, independent of endianness.
>
> 2/2 updates the selftest's expected output to match the new,
> endianness-independent values. It depends on 1/2: applied on
> its own it would regress little-endian hosts (though it happens
> to have no effect on big-endian hosts, whose old host-order
> output already matched the new expected values).
>
I forgot to add Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org to these patches. Should I
send a v2 for that, given patch 2/2 only makes sense together with
patch 1/2 (applying just one regresses the test on one endianness or
the other)?
> Tested on real booted kernels, both patches applied:
> - x86_64 (little-endian): PASS: ipsec_offload
> - s390x (big-endian): PASS: ipsec_offload
>
> checkpatch.pl --strict and sparse (make C=2) are clean on both patches.
>
> Andrei Gherzan (2):
> netdevsim: print IPsec salt/key in network byte order
> selftests: rtnetlink: update ipsec_offload expected output
>
> drivers/net/netdevsim/ipsec.c | 10 +++++-----
> drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h | 4 ++--
> tools/testing/selftests/net/rtnetlink.sh | 8 ++++----
> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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Andrei Gherzan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-09 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-08 14:03 Andrei Gherzan
2026-09-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 1/2] netdevsim: print IPsec salt/key in network " Andrei Gherzan
2026-09-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests: rtnetlink: update ipsec_offload expected output Andrei Gherzan
2026-09-09 13:37 ` Andrei Gherzan [this message]
2026-09-09 20:38 ` [PATCH net 0/2] netdevsim: fix IPsec debugfs byte order Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-09 20:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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