From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jordy Zomer <jordy@pwning.systems>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: make d_path-like functions all have unsigned size
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:49:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YP/k0Nn/UnaKiKq2@lx-t490> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210727103625.74961-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> Resolve all of the abuguity by just making "size" an unsigned value,
> which takes the guesswork out of everything involved.
>
Pardon my ignorance, but why not size_t instead of an unsigned int? I
feel it will be more clear this way; but, yes, on 64-bit machines this
will extend the buflen param to 64-bit.
Thanks,
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
Linutronix GmbH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-27 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-27 10:36 [PATCH] fs: make d_path-like functions all have unsigned size Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-27 10:49 ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2021-07-27 10:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-27 11:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-27 11:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-27 14:50 ` Al Viro
2021-07-27 15:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-27 15:17 ` Al Viro
2021-07-27 15:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
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