From: Rob Jones <rob.jones@codethink.co.uk>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@codethink.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open_private()
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 16:53:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54049684.9010005@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140901153637.GI7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On 01/09/14 16:36, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Rob Jones wrote:
>
>> void *__seq_open_private(struct file *f, const struct seq_operations *ops,
>> - int psize)
>> + size_t psize)
>
> <sarcasm>
> It is a horrible limitation to impose, indeed. Why, a lousy
> 2 gigabytes per line in procfs file - that's intolerable...
> </sarcasm>
>
<shrug>
Consistency?
kmalloc() expects a size_t and I haven't heard anyone whingeing about that.
Ultimately, this function calls kmalloc().
>
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Rob Jones
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-01 13:17 [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open_private() Rob Jones
2014-09-01 15:36 ` Al Viro
2014-09-01 15:53 ` Rob Jones [this message]
2014-09-11 16:25 ` Rob Jones
2014-09-12 14:16 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-09-12 14:43 ` Rob Jones
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2014-09-01 13:13 Rob Jones
2014-09-01 13:15 ` Rob Jones
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