linux-kernel - Re: get/put unaligned helpers

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1234367339.5481.3.camel@brick>
Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:48:58 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: get/put unaligned helpers

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:35 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I just loked into using the new get/put unaligned helpers.  I must
> say that I'm really unhappy about the lack of typing there.  We did
> put all the sparse infrastructure in place to make sure we do have
> strong typechecking for LE/Be types, but using these helpers defeats
> that.
> 
> Can you please make these properly typed?

Sorry, real life got in the way, I had a series in -mm for a few months
that did the typing and fixed the argument ordering by providing a
load/store API and then moving the existing users across, but that got
delayed while the (aligned) byteswapping patches were made suitable
for mainline.

I'll get that series revived shortly.

Harvey

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/