[PATCH net 0/2] netdevsim: fix IPsec debugfs byte order

From: Andrei Gherzan

Date: Tue Sep 08 2026 - 10:29:52 EST


The netdevsim IPsec debugfs file (used by selftests/net/rtnetlink.sh's
ipsec_offload subtest) prints the SA salt and key in host CPU byte
order instead of network byte order, because nsim_sa.key[]/salt are
typed as plain u32 and printed directly with "%08x". This makes the
reported values differ between little-endian and big-endian hosts for
the same underlying key material, and breaks the selftest on
big-endian (e.g. s390x), which hardcodes the little-endian output.

A driver-side fix was proposed in 2022 but stalled in review: keeping
the fields as plain u32 meant sparse could not validate the added
ntohl()/be32_to_cpu() conversions.

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220308135106.890270-1-kleber.souza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

This series:

1/2 retypes nsim_sa.key[]/salt to __be32 (matching the existing
__be32 ipaddr[] field) and converts with be32_to_cpu() before
printing, so the debugfs output is now network-order on every
host, independent of endianness.

2/2 updates the selftest's expected output to match the new,
endianness-independent values. It depends on 1/2: applied on
its own it would regress little-endian hosts (though it happens
to have no effect on big-endian hosts, whose old host-order
output already matched the new expected values).

Tested on real booted kernels, both patches applied:
- x86_64 (little-endian): PASS: ipsec_offload
- s390x (big-endian): PASS: ipsec_offload

checkpatch.pl --strict and sparse (make C=2) are clean on both patches.

Andrei Gherzan (2):
netdevsim: print IPsec salt/key in network byte order
selftests: rtnetlink: update ipsec_offload expected output

drivers/net/netdevsim/ipsec.c | 10 +++++-----
drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h | 4 ++--
tools/testing/selftests/net/rtnetlink.sh | 8 ++++----
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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