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    fscrypto: make XTS tweak initialization endian-independent · fb445437
    Eric Biggers authored
    The XTS tweak (or IV) was initialized differently on little endian and
    big endian systems.  Because the ciphertext depends on the XTS tweak, it
    was not possible to use an encrypted filesystem created by a little
    endian system on a big endian system and vice versa, even if they shared
    the same PAGE_SIZE.  Fix this by always using little endian.
    
    This will break hypothetical big endian users of ext4 or f2fs
    encryption.  However, all users we are aware of are little endian, and
    it's believed that "real" big endian users are unlikely to exist yet.
    So this might as well be fixed now before it's too late.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    fb445437
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