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Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 15:21:31 -0700 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, Network Development List <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] nf_conntrack: avoid kernel pointer value leak in slab name On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote: > > Why simply not cast the atomic to (unsigned long long) instead of (u64) > so that %llu always matches ? Yes, that fixes the problem. It's just more typing, and annoying. The fact that MS got it right while posix and gcc screwed it up is a bit embarrassing.. If we ever start using __uint128_t, we'll have even more problems in this area. Oh well. Linus
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