Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:22:12 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5.19 0246/1157] usercopy: use unsigned long instead of uintptr_t |
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 09:06:21PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 07:53:22PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > From: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> > > > > [ Upstream commit 170b2c350cfcb6f74074e44dd9f916787546db0d ] > > > > 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. > > > > Fixes: 35fb9ae4aa2e ("usercopy: Cast pointer to an integer once") > > Not sure why this needs to be backported?
Odd, shouldn't be, now dropped.
greg k-h
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