linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/23] afs: switch to use uuid_t and uuid

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 16:11:39 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/23] afs: switch to use uuid_t and uuid_gen

On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 10:49 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 09:49:17PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > >  	struct afs_call *call = container_of(work, struct
> > > afs_call,
> > > work);
> > > -	struct uuid_v1 *r = call->request;
> > > +	uuid_t *r = call->request;
> > >  
> > >  	struct {
> > >  		__be32	match;
> > > 
> > 
> > Just to double check that this doesn't create a union aliasing.
> 
> What do you mean with that?

Since we introduced a union it's possible that we might access the
member which wasn't last modified one. So, my comment is to give an
attention on such possibility and avoid if there is an aliasing
happened.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy