linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: acpi/sleep.c saved

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Date:	Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:53:27 -0700
From:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: acpi/sleep.c saved_magic fix overflow

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput
<jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote:
> Impact: fix overflow
>
> Constant 0x123456789abcdef0 is so big for a long.
> So using saved_magic 0x12345678 for both 32 and 64 bit.
>

Uhm, what? saved_magic is a long, which is 64 bits wide on on 64 bit systems.
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