Thread (89 messages) 89 messages, 13 authors, 2017-09-18

Re: [PATCH v06 21/36] uapi linux/kexec.h: use __kernel_size_t instead of size_t

From: Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
Date: 2017-08-08 23:15:47
Also in: kexec, lkml

On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 06:44:12PM +0200, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
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Fixes userspace compilation error:

error: unknown type name ‘size_t’
  size_t bufsz;

Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <redacted>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Eric Biederman <redacted>
---
 include/uapi/linux/kexec.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h b/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
index aae5ebf2022b..f964d83b2757 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
  */
 struct kexec_segment {
 	const void *buf;
-	size_t bufsz;
+	__kernel_size_t bufsz;
 	const void *mem;
-	size_t memsz;
+	__kernel_size_t memsz;
No, this is definitely wrong as it breaks x32.
I submitted an alternative fix some time ago, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170222224646.GC14311@altlinux.org


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