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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] asm-generic: uaccess: fix access_ok() prototype
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:17:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906142217.50997.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244959204-11269-4-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>

On Sunday 14 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> @@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t fs)
>  #define VERIFY_READ    0
>  #define VERIFY_WRITE   1
>  
> -#define access_ok(type, addr, size) __access_ok((unsigned long)(addr),(size))
> +#define access_ok(type, addr, size) __access_ok((addr), (size))
>  
>  /*
>   * The architecture should really override this if possible, at least

Upon actually testing this change, it turns out that this causes more
trouble because of having to pass down pointers that may have 'const'
or 'volatile' modifiers. I'm sure there is a way to do this correctly,
but most architectures seem to cope well with 'unsigned long' here,
and your patch 3/4 solves the original problem nicely.

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-14 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-14  6:00 [PATCH 1/4] asm-generic: uaccess: do not expand args multiple times Mike Frysinger
2009-06-14  6:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] asm-generic: uaccess: add missing access_ok() check to strnlen_user() Mike Frysinger
2009-06-14 20:35   ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-14  6:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] asm-generic: uaccess: fix up local access_ok() usage Mike Frysinger
2009-06-14 20:35   ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-14  6:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] asm-generic: uaccess: fix access_ok() prototype Mike Frysinger
2009-06-14 20:17   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-06-16 10:34     ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-14 20:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] asm-generic: uaccess: do not expand args multiple times Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-24  4:38   ` Al Viro
2009-06-24 11:35     ` Mike Frysinger

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