linux-kernel - Re: [UPDATED PATCH] fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode

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Date:	Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:00:28 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [UPDATED PATCH] fix memory corruption from misinterpreted
 bad_inode_ops return values

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 20:24:12 +0000
Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk> wrote:

> So my main issue with fs/bad_inode.c is not even cast per se; it's that
> cast is to void *.

But Eric's latest patch is OK in that regard, isn't it?  It might confuse
parsers (in fixable ways), but it is type-correct and has no casts.  (Well,
it kinda has an link-time cast).
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