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Commit cd93710e authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Trond Myklebust
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NFS: Fix nfs4_verifier memory alignment


Clean up due to code review.

The nfs4_verifier's data field is not guaranteed to be u32-aligned.
Casting an array of chars to a u32 * is considered generally
hazardous.

Fix this by using a __be32 array to generate a verifier's contents,
and then byte-copy the contents into the verifier field.  The contents
of a verifier, for all intents and purposes, are opaque bytes.  Only
local code that generates a verifier need know the actual content and
format.  Everyone else compares the full byte array for exact
equality.

Also, sizeof(nfs4_verifer) is the size of the in-core verifier data
structure, but NFS4_VERIFIER_SIZE is the number of octets in an XDR'd
verifier.  The two are not interchangeable, even if they happen to
have the same value.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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