Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:38:02 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] usercopy: use unsigned long instead of uintptr_t |
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 04:36:17PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > A recent commit factored out a series of annoying (unsigned long) casts > into a single variable declaration, but made the pointer type a > `uintptr_t` rather than the usual `unsigned long`. This patch changes it > to be the integer type more typically used by the kernel to represent > addresses.
No. I did this on purpose. uintptr_t is the correct type to represent a pointer that's being used as an integer. This dinosaur approach of using unsigned long has to stop.
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