From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>,
Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 18:03:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080501220341.GA31475@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0805011706070.12785@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
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..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-01 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-01 21:08 Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-01 21:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 21:26 ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-01 21:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 21:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-01 22:01 ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-01 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-01 22:32 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-05-01 21:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 22:29 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-05-01 21:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 22:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-01 22:03 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-05-02 11:39 ` Enrico Weigelt
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