linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: use the correct function type for native_set

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Date:   Tue, 8 Oct 2019 15:18:42 -0700
From:   Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use the correct function type for native_set_fixmap

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:51 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com> wrote:
> Someone else probably knows better, but yes, we could also fix this by
> changing set_fixmap to accept enum fixed_addresses as the first
> parameter, and changing the type of xen_set_fixmap instead.

This approach is actually more problematic since we cannot forward
declare an enum in C and including <asm/fixmap.h> here results in a
ton of other missing dependencies. I assume this is why the callback
function accepts unsigned in the first place.

Sami