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The endianness of a variable written to the measurement list cannot be determined at compile time, as it depends on the value of the ima_canonical_fmt global variable (set through a kernel option with the same name if the machine is big endian). If ima_canonical_fmt is false, the endianness of a variable is the same as the machine; if ima_canonical_fmt is true, the endianness is little endian. The warning arises due to this type of instruction: var = cpu_to_leXX(var) which tries to assign a value in little endian to a variable with native endianness (little or big endian). Given that the variables set with this instruction are not used in any operation but just written to a buffer, it is safe to force the type of the value being set to be the same of the type of the variable with: var = (__force <var type>)cpu_to_leXX(var) Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.