From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D31A3B28D; Fri, 6 Feb 2026 08:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1770366637; cv=none; b=b69sChzFO5/CiHNsDJHnldcA4FdoNEkMJgmIVqjzK1NtuLqzD4thqwP8veyGCYs86V2bQ3oF8oQ9z9XdV4Sp6Lr02Bywtxdh3av2PQp2G7X/ehMr6MPPJ08KC/X5HMZwnypGr4nQRldGGpE7FLLUj3KvB5Fi7s2tupmiSV0bj/g= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1770366637; c=relaxed/simple; bh=CyWrZOJATVNS9+Rj5D0Boe5KDdvWmaNR5FdjGU15MAE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=VIn9wtxXT7PWmn0ZO9AkK+HEQNTY2Iv8ST0bdTLYTvboL+LQzyk5u1OBPjl+LAAezYPtRWLROdxYteKn3t2bScp2y7gyAq+F+o6BS79pzpPu3k14SwR77rWMRc5gvLB4GmMCTkmKZ/NvSF4+TdUss6wtjWGsalVIrtbwABsdKTc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=KbZxmDrr; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="KbZxmDrr" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 487F2C116C6; Fri, 6 Feb 2026 08:30:36 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1770366636; bh=CyWrZOJATVNS9+Rj5D0Boe5KDdvWmaNR5FdjGU15MAE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=KbZxmDrrcakJ1Zbg86za3Nn9bxpJJasJZ16hyHVIpnfS1mGRcJ3jNdVJC+Jj19++i PnqWZFYx52twIezwwpk0X6QS6xzo4JcNBncQACzeVxjyHXngXPgP3tIbbteQ/24IT9 hiiwZu6Dywo+w3kpTYZNBhw5+WZLY5UX7R/ohVMYzH1KHFl62weRoMxRPY3pR5QjVO d5VSXMwhPOYk1nZJeUxwaJDqXNznFEJjahtBzWO4YYlcyvgUVDHJmKKgafFuD0pdIN vbno5/RvKlSCcd79Gf4Z2Kqme2oRkRu8CzIQ5fv1QDygN6tvY3nONmqGvGHrUztUps EmR0AXYyecAlg== Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 09:30:08 +0100 From: Nicolas Schier To: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wei=DFschuh?= Cc: Nathan Chancellor , Arnd Bergmann , Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Sami Tolvanen , Daniel Gomez , Paul Moore , James Morris , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Jonathan Corbet , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Naveen N Rao , Mimi Zohar , Roberto Sassu , Dmitry Kasatkin , Eric Snowberg , Daniel Gomez , Aaron Tomlin , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , Nicolas Bouchinet , Xiu Jianfeng , Fabian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=FCnbichler?= , Arnout Engelen , Mattia Rizzolo , kpcyrd , Christian Heusel , =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E2ju?= Mihai-Drosi , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/17] module: Switch load_info::len to size_t Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: Nicolas Schier , Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wei=DFschuh?= , Nathan Chancellor , Arnd Bergmann , Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Sami Tolvanen , Daniel Gomez , Paul Moore , James Morris , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Jonathan Corbet , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Naveen N Rao , Mimi Zohar , Roberto Sassu , Dmitry Kasatkin , Eric Snowberg , Daniel Gomez , Aaron Tomlin , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , Nicolas Bouchinet , Xiu Jianfeng , Fabian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=FCnbichler?= , Arnout Engelen , Mattia Rizzolo , kpcyrd , Christian Heusel , =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E2ju?= Mihai-Drosi , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org References: <20260113-module-hashes-v4-0-0b932db9b56b@weissschuh.net> <20260113-module-hashes-v4-5-0b932db9b56b@weissschuh.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20260113-module-hashes-v4-5-0b932db9b56b@weissschuh.net> X-TUID: cnlOAPnJljc+ On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 01:28:49PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: > Switching the types will make some later changes cleaner. > size_t is also the semantically correct type for this field. > > As both 'size_t' and 'unsigned int' are always the same size, this > should be risk-free. include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h states: | * Most 32 bit architectures use "unsigned int" size_t, | * and all 64 bit architectures use "unsigned long" size_t. Is that statement wrong? Or did I mix up the context? Kind regards, Nicolas