Re: [PATCH] ARM: fix memset64() on big-endian
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2026-01-02 15:22:23
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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2026-01-02 15:22:23
Also in:
lkml, stable
On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 08:15:46AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
On big-endian systems the 32-bit low and high halves need to be swapped, for the underlying assembly implemenation to work correctly.
Heh. In my heart, ARM will always be a litte-endian architecture. I'm not really surprised this bug took, er, 8 years to show up; big-endian arm is rare enough and memset64() isn't much used on 32-bit systems. And it turns out that many of the users pass a constant 0 as the value, which was kind of not the point, but it seems to be an easier API to use than memset, so whatever ;-)
Fixes: fd1d362600e2 ("ARM: implement memset32 & memset64")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <redacted>Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>