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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tpm: fix byte order related arithmetic inconsistency in tpm_getcap()
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen
<jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Arithmetic should work but it's not a good practice to do additions,
> substractions or multiplications in any other byte order than the CPU
> byte order.
>
> sparse also complains about this.
>
> /Jarkko

Arithmetic should work?
let's try with 0x0080:
in native order: 0x0080 + 0x0080 = 0x0100
in reverse order: 0x8000 + 0x8000 = 0x0000 != swap16(0x0100)

Or do I misunderstand what you mean by "arithmetic should work"?

-- Luc Van Oostenryck

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