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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set bounds on what /proc/self/make-it-fail accepts.
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:55:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140219215505.GA28876@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140219134025.fcd70941e1ec98723a1bd230@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 01:40:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 
 > Switching `make_it_fail' to unsigned makes the test simpler but it does
 > rather muck up the typing in there.  task_struct.make_it_fail is still
 > an int, we should now use simple_strtoul rather than simple_strtol,
 > proc_fault_inject_read()'s snprintf() should now use %u, etc.  None of
 > which actually matters, but still...
 
I toyed with the idea of changing task_struct.make_it_fail to unsigned too,
but only realized I missed that after I'd sent out the diff.

 > Rather than address all that I'm inclined to leave `make_it_fail' as an
 > int, turning your patch into a one-liner?

That works for me too.

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-19 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-18 22:06 [PATCH] Set bounds on what /proc/self/make-it-fail accepts Dave Jones
2014-02-18 22:32 ` David Rientjes
2014-02-18 23:27   ` Dave Jones
2014-02-19 13:48     ` Akinobu Mita
2014-02-19 21:37       ` David Rientjes
2014-02-19 21:40 ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-19 21:55   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2014-02-19 22:00     ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-19 22:07       ` David Rientjes
2014-02-19 22:31       ` Dave Jones

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