linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] doc: fix typo in botching up ioctls

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Message-ID: <855df2ca-0760-2106-4e3b-2af7ce15b9eb@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:22:50 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] doc: fix typo in botching up ioctls



On 12/30/22 09:23, Federico Vaga wrote:
> The type contained a typo `uintprt` -> `uintptr`
> 
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>


Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
>  Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> v1 -> v2 fix the typo in the commit message
> 
> 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

-- 
~Randy