# Re: \[PATCH\] MPI: Endianness fix

- From: Herbert Xu \<herbert@gondor.apana.org.au\>
- Date: 2016-02-27 19:33:38 
- List: linux-crypto
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-crypto/2016/02/4696225
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-crypto/2016/02/4687621/t.md

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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 <redacted>

Applied.
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