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Message-Id: <20221230172024.58372-1-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 18:20:24 +0100
From: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix typos in botching up ioctls
The type contained a type `uintprt` -> `uintptr`
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>
---
Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst b/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst
index ba4667ab396b..9739b88463a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ will need to add a 32-bit compat layer:
structures to the kernel, or if the kernel checks the structure size, which
e.g. the drm core does.
- * Pointers are __u64, cast from/to a uintprt_t on the userspace side and
+ * Pointers are __u64, cast from/to a uintptr_t on the userspace side and
from/to a void __user * in the kernel. Try really hard not to delay this
conversion or worse, fiddle the raw __u64 through your code since that
diminishes the checking tools like sparse can provide. The macro
--
2.30.2
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