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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>, Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
	KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>,
	Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@chromium.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 3/6] bpf: Add a bpf_snprintf helper
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:18:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXQ2=xPSGxDsrprb_pXjkOaUi_YZ+8h65kdW+SYCseWoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEf4BzbROOSi8PfM2c-BR31S-=aQjVgfzTAPaCqntcjjQb1W=w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Andrii,

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 12:58 AM Andrii Nakryiko
<andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:30 AM Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:02 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 9:41 AM Andrii Nakryiko
> > > <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 8:38 AM Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > > > +       fmt = (char *)fmt_addr + fmt_map_off;
> > > > > +
> > > >
> > > > bot complained about lack of (long) cast before fmt_addr, please address
> > >
> > > (uintptr_t), I assume?
> >
> > (uintptr_t) seems more correct to me as well. However, I just had a
> > look at the rest of verifier.c and (long) casts are already used
> > pretty much everywhere whereas uintptr_t isn't used yet.
> > I'll send a v4 with a long cast for the sake of consistency with the
> > rest of the verifier.
>
> right, I don't care about long or uintptr_t, both are guaranteed to
> work, I just remember seeing a lot of code with (long) cast. I have no
> preference.

AFAIR, uintptr_t was introduced only in C99. Early Linux code predates that,
hence uses long, and this behavior was of course copied to new code.

Please use uintptr_t in new code.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-15  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-12 15:37 [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/6] Add a snprintf eBPF helper Florent Revest
2021-04-12 15:37 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/6] bpf: Factorize bpf_trace_printk and bpf_seq_printf Florent Revest
2021-04-13 23:01   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-14  9:56     ` Florent Revest
2021-04-14 10:56       ` Florent Revest
2021-04-12 15:37 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/6] bpf: Add a ARG_PTR_TO_CONST_STR argument type Florent Revest
2021-04-13 23:03   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-12 15:37 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 3/6] bpf: Add a bpf_snprintf helper Florent Revest
2021-04-12 19:11   ` kernel test robot
2021-04-12 19:11     ` kernel test robot
2021-04-12 20:32   ` kernel test robot
2021-04-12 20:32     ` kernel test robot
2021-04-14 13:32     ` Florent Revest
2021-04-14 13:32       ` Florent Revest
2021-04-12 20:40   ` kernel test robot
2021-04-12 20:40     ` kernel test robot
2021-04-13 23:16   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-14  9:46     ` Florent Revest
2021-04-14 22:57       ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-15  9:34         ` Florent Revest
2021-04-14 18:02     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-14 18:30       ` Florent Revest
2021-04-14 22:58         ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-15  7:18           ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2021-04-12 15:37 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 4/6] libbpf: Initialize the bpf_seq_printf parameters array field by field Florent Revest
2021-04-13 23:18   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-12 15:37 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 5/6] libbpf: Introduce a BPF_SNPRINTF helper macro Florent Revest
2021-04-13 23:18   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-12 15:37 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 6/6] selftests/bpf: Add a series of tests for bpf_snprintf Florent Revest
2021-04-13 23:21   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-14  9:21     ` Florent Revest
2021-04-14 22:16       ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-15  9:38         ` Florent Revest

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