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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: idr: IDs guaranteed to be less than 1<<31? (was Re: [PATCH] firewire: us an idr rather than a linked list for resources)
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:09:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <492AFBCD.2020009@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081124163728.GA5826@redhat.com>

Jay Fenlason wrote at linux1394-devel:
> As mentioned in the comments, there is a theoretical problem with this
> code if someone manages to allocate 2^31 resources on a 32-bit
> machine, or 2^32+1 resources on a 64+-bit machine.

The kerneldoc of idr_get_new() says that we only get IDs in the range of
0...0x7fffffff.  But is this true with 64bit kernels?
-- 
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/

       reply	other threads:[~2008-11-24 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20081124163728.GA5826@redhat.com>
2008-11-24 19:09 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
     [not found] ` <492AEED8.9030102@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
     [not found]   ` <492AEF9D.5010307@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-12-14 18:17     ` [PATCH 0/4] firewire: cdev resources and events Stefan Richter
2008-12-14 18:19       ` [PATCH 1/4] firewire: cdev: fix race of fw_device_op_release with bus reset Stefan Richter
2008-12-14 18:20       ` [PATCH 2/4] firewire: cdev: use an idr rather than a linked list for resources Stefan Richter
2008-12-18 22:43         ` Stefan Richter
2008-12-18 23:05           ` Stefan Richter
2008-12-21 15:47             ` [PATCH 2/4 update] " Stefan Richter
2008-12-14 18:21       ` [PATCH 3/4] firewire: cdev: address handler input validation Stefan Richter
2008-12-14 18:21       ` [PATCH 4/4] firewire: core: remove outdated comment Stefan Richter

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