linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open

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Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 2014 16:53:40 +0100
From:	Rob Jones <rob.jones@...ethink.co.uk>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...ethink.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open_private()



On 01/09/14 16:36, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Rob Jones wrote:
>
>>   void *__seq_open_private(struct file *f, const struct seq_operations *ops,
>> -		int psize)
>> +		size_t psize)
>
> <sarcasm>
> It is a horrible limitation to impose, indeed.  Why, a lousy
> 2 gigabytes per line in procfs file - that's intolerable...
> </sarcasm>
>

<shrug>

Consistency?

kmalloc() expects a size_t and I haven't heard anyone whingeing about that.

Ultimately, this function calls kmalloc().

>

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