Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2008 18:03:41 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p |
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On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:08:05PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Some files in the net/9p directory uses "int" for flags. This can > cause hard to find bugs on some architectures. This patch converts the > flags to use "long" instead. > > This bug was discovered by doing an allyesconfig make on the -rt kernel > where checks are done to ensure all flags are of size sizeof(long).
We had checks like that in mainline aswell that caught a lot of errors like this one. Probably got lost in one of the gazillions of spinlock rewrites..
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