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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Huaisheng Ye <yehs2007@zoho.com>
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, dave.jiang@intel.com,
	willy@infradead.org, ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com,
	vishal.l.verma@intel.com, jack@suse.com, chengnt@lenovo.com,
	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@lenovo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fs/ext2/inode: Fix a type cast error for fsdax
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 20:26:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180701192600.GT30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180701061848.7036-2-yehs2007@zoho.com>

On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 02:18:47PM +0800, Huaisheng Ye wrote:
> From: Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@lenovo.com>
> 
> The type of offset within struct iomap is loff_t, which represents
> file offset of mapping.
> 
> In ext2_iomap_begin, iomap->offset shall be given a type cast as
> loff_t instead of u64.

Why is it an error?  loff_t is uniformly typedefed to long long.
In which case the second variant is different from the first one
*and* does not step into nasal demon territory?

> -	iomap->offset = (u64)first_block << blkbits;
> +	iomap->offset = (loff_t)first_block << blkbits;

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-01 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-01  6:18 [PATCH 1/3] drivers/dax/super: Add annotation for ops in struct dax_device Huaisheng Ye
2018-07-01  6:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] fs/ext2/inode: Fix a type cast error for fsdax Huaisheng Ye
2018-07-01 19:26   ` Al Viro [this message]
2018-07-02  6:23     ` Huaisheng Ye
2018-07-02  7:55       ` Jan Kara
2018-07-01  6:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] fs/ext2/inode: Optimize the condition for iomap_begin Huaisheng Ye
2018-07-02  7:57   ` Jan Kara

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