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From: viresh.kumar@linaro.org (Viresh Kumar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] PM / OPP: fix debugfs files for 64-bit
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 22:06:59 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151007163659.GB4557@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151007163309.GM21513@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On 07-10-15, 17:33, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Don't you even think about doing that - that's totally broken no matter
> what, and this is a good example of why casts are Bad.
> 
> debugfs_create_u64() will create a debugfs object that will want to
> access a 64-bit value, but the value pointed to is only 32-bit.  The
> net result is that the debugfs file ends up reading or writing the
> neigbouring 32-bits, which may potentially be unaligned.

Yeah, that's what I was also saying. Its broken.

> The variable pointed to for debugfs_create_u64() must be a 64-bit
> value.  No casts allowed.
> 
> An alternative would be to have debugfs_create_ulong()

And that's what I suggested.

-- 
viresh

      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-07 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-07  7:35 [PATCH] PM / OPP: fix debugfs files for 64-bit Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-07 10:59 ` Viresh Kumar
2015-10-07 11:03   ` Viresh Kumar
2015-10-07 11:07     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-07 11:21       ` Viresh Kumar
2015-10-07 12:57         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-07 13:03           ` Viresh Kumar
2015-10-07 17:19             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-07 17:27               ` Viresh Kumar
2015-10-07 17:39                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-07 18:00                   ` Viresh Kumar
2015-10-07 19:12             ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-08  7:48               ` Viresh Kumar
2015-10-08 14:25                 ` Alan Stern
2015-10-19 15:40                 ` Michael Turquette
2015-10-19 15:53                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-10-20 10:22                     ` Michael Turquette
2015-10-07 16:33         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-10-07 16:36           ` Viresh Kumar [this message]

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