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Liping Zhang
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Currently, there are two different methods to store an u16 integer to the u32 data register. For example: u32 *dest = ®s->data[priv->dreg]; 1. *dest = 0; *(u16 *) dest = val_u16; 2. *dest = val_u16; For method 1, the u16 value will be stored like this, either in big-endian or little-endian system: 0 15 31 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Value | 0 | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ For method 2, in little-endian system, the u16 value will be the same as listed above. But in big-endian system, the u16 value will be stored like this: 0 15 31 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | 0 | Value | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ So later we use "memcmp(®s->data[priv->sreg], data, 2);" to do compare in nft_cmp, nft_lookup expr ..., method 2 will get the wrong result in big-endian system, as 0~15 bits will always be zero. For the similar reason, when loading an u16 value from the u32 data register, we should use "*(u16 *) sreg;" instead of "(u16)*sreg;", the 2nd method will get the wrong value in the big-endian system. So introduce some wrapper functions to store/load an u8 or u16 integer to/from the u32 data register, and use them in the right place. Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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