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authorAl Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>2007-10-29 05:11:28 +0000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-29 07:41:33 -0700
commit142956af525002c5378e7d91d81a01189841a785 (patch)
treebcf73cc0e2d56d8d46d470fcedaadf42ae0602bd /include/linux/types.h
parent0c7eb2eb800c4afb2205bbaa1bc633eb29082fef (diff)
fix abuses of ptrdiff_t
Use of ptrdiff_t in places like - if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, u_tmp->rx_buf, u_tmp->len)) + if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, (u8 __user *) + (ptrdiff_t) u_tmp->rx_buf, + u_tmp->len)) is wrong; for one thing, it's a bad C (it's what uintptr_t is for; in general we are not even promised that ptrdiff_t is large enough to hold a pointer, just enough to hold a difference between two pointers within the same object). For another, it confuses the fsck out of sparse. Use unsigned long or uintptr_t instead. There are several places misusing ptrdiff_t; fixed. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index 4f0dad21c917..f4f8d19158e4 100644
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ typedef __kernel_gid32_t gid_t;
typedef __kernel_uid16_t uid16_t;
typedef __kernel_gid16_t gid16_t;
+typedef unsigned long uintptr_t;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_UID16
/* This is defined by include/asm-{arch}/posix_types.h */
typedef __kernel_old_uid_t old_uid_t;