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From: Rob Jones <rob.jones@codethink.co.uk>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open_private()
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:54:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54047A96.1090900@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVxJT9FWrGV=LOR11MoK1LEc6b9orDrA1dRAqMiT2Z=OnOQsg@mail.gmail.com>

I don't agree. Ultimately this parameter ends up as a parameter to
kmalloc where it is expected to be a size_t.

On 01/09/14 14:43, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>   void *__seq_open_private(struct file *f, const struct seq_operations *ops,
>> - int psize)
>> + size_t psize)
>
> It should be "unsigned int" at most.
> As almost all in-kernel lengths.
>
>      Alexey
>
>

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Rob Jones
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-01 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-01 13:43 [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open_private() Alexey Dobriyan
2014-09-01 13:54 ` Rob Jones [this message]
2014-09-01 14:13   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2014-09-01 14:38     ` Rob Jones
2014-09-01 21:22       ` Al Viro
2014-09-02  8:29         ` Rob Jones
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-09-01 13:17 Rob Jones
2014-09-01 15:36 ` Al Viro
2014-09-01 15:53   ` Rob Jones
2014-09-11 16:25   ` Rob Jones
2014-09-12 14:16     ` Richard Weinberger
2014-09-12 14:43       ` Rob Jones
2014-09-01 13:13 Rob Jones
2014-09-01 13:15 ` Rob Jones

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