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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Oren Weil <oren.jer.weil@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@linux.intel.com, david@woodhou.se
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] char/mei: Header file contain the Userland API, (IOCTL and its struct)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:26:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110322162603.GB14737@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300791092-14319-7-git-send-email-oren.jer.weil@intel.com>

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:51:31PM +0200, Oren Weil wrote:
> +/*
> + * Intel MEI client information struct
> + */
> +struct mei_client {
> +	u32 max_msg_length;
> +	u8 protocol_version;
> +	u8 reserved[3];
> +} __packed;

As this is passing the kernel/user boundry, you need to use the proper
data types for it.

So use __u32 and __u8 here please.

> +/*
> + * IOCTL Connect Client Data structure
> + */
> +struct mei_connect_client_data {
> +	union {
> +		uuid_le in_client_uuid;
> +		struct mei_client out_client_propeties;
> +	} d;

Why not an anonymous union?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-22 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-22 10:51 [PATCH 0/7] char/mei: Intel MEI Driver Oren Weil
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 1/7] char/mei: PCI device and char driver support Oren Weil
2011-03-22 17:22   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-22 21:57     ` Alan Cox
2011-03-22 22:22       ` Greg KH
2011-03-22 23:04         ` Alan Cox
2011-03-23  7:59           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 2/7] char/mei: Interrupt handling Oren Weil
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 3/7] char/mei: MEI "Link" layer code - MEI Hardware communications Oren Weil
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 4/7] char/mei: MEI driver init flow Oren Weil
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 5/7] char/mei: Hardware and MEI driver internal struct definition Oren Weil
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 6/7] char/mei: Header file contain the Userland API, (IOCTL and its struct) Oren Weil
2011-03-22 16:26   ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-03-22 16:41     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-22 10:51 ` [PATCH 7/7] char/mei: Updates to char/Kconfig ane char/Makefile Oren Weil
2011-03-23 21:43   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-03-22 16:23 ` [PATCH 0/7] char/mei: Intel MEI Driver Greg KH
2011-03-23 12:25   ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-03-23 13:50     ` Greg KH
2011-03-22 16:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-23  7:20   ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-03-23 13:51     ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 15:55       ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-03-23 16:06         ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 16:20           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-24 12:54             ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-03-24 13:10               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-04 15:54 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-05  6:01   ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-04-18 13:53     ` Pavel Machek

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