linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p

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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 18:03:41 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, akpm@...l.org,
	Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p

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..

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