From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sgi-xp: fix writing past the end of kzalloc()'d space (v.2)
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:57:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090204115721.74531d5c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090204183641.GA24632@sgi.com>
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:36:41 -0600 Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> wrote:
> Note that I'm using 'void *' instead of 'u8 *' to ->define recv_msg_slots.
> Currently they are equivalent in terms of the math, but 'void *' has the
> advantage of not needing to cast at all. Is this an appropriate choice?
I think so. void* is a nice way of saying "here's a blob of bytes".
It's a gcc extension to permit arithmetic on a void*, but we use that
one widely.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-04 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-03 18:23 [PATCH] sgi-xp: add type cast to kzalloc()'d space to avoid slab corruption Dean Nelson
2009-02-03 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-04 18:36 ` [PATCH] sgi-xp: fix writing past the end of kzalloc()'d space (v.2) Dean Nelson
2009-02-04 19:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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