From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [UPDATED PATCH] fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:14:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070104191451.GW17561@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701041104021.3661@woody.osdl.org>
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:09:31AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But I'd argue we should only do it if there is an actual
> honest-to-goodness reason to do so.
How about "makes call graph analysis easier"? ;-) In principle, I have
no problem with force-casting, but it'd better be cast to the right
type...
(And yes, there's a bunch of sparse-based fun in making dealing with
call graph analysis and sane annotations needed for that).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-04 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-03 23:46 [UPDATED PATCH] fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values Eric Sandeen
2007-01-04 0:26 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 17:51 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-04 18:26 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 18:33 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-04 18:54 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-04 19:14 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-01-04 19:22 ` Al Viro
2007-01-04 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 2:14 ` Roman Zippel
2007-01-04 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-04 20:24 ` Al Viro
2007-01-04 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 21:04 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-04 21:10 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 21:18 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-04 21:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-04 21:50 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-04 21:52 ` Al Viro
2007-01-04 22:38 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2007-01-04 22:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-04 22:48 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-04 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 23:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-04 23:28 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-04 23:21 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2007-01-04 23:52 ` Al Viro
2007-01-05 5:59 ` Duplicated functions (was: fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values) Mitchell Blank Jr
2007-01-05 15:40 ` [UPDATED PATCH] fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values Arjan van de Ven
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2007-01-05 16:33 ` Bodo Eggert
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2007-01-04 19:23 Mikael Pettersson
2007-01-03 23:37 Eric Sandeen
2007-01-03 23:46 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-05 14:37 ` Phillip Lougher
2007-01-05 15:11 ` phillip
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