Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2020-12-30

[PATCH] delete_module.2: SYNOPSIS: Fix prototype parameter types

From: Alejandro Colomar <hidden>
Date: 2020-12-30 21:42:54
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

The Linux kernel uses 'unsigned int' instead of 'int' for the
'flags' parameter.  As glibc provides no wrapper, use the same
type the kernel uses.

......

$ syscall='delete_module';
$ find linux/ -type f -name '*.c' \
  |xargs pcregrep -Mn "(?s)^[\w_]*SYSCALL_DEFINE.\(${syscall},.*?\)";
linux/kernel/module.c:977:
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(delete_module, const char __user *, name_user,
		unsigned int, flags)

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <redacted>
---
 man2/delete_module.2 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man2/delete_module.2 b/man2/delete_module.2
index e63545d51..1030e9698 100644
--- a/man2/delete_module.2
+++ b/man2/delete_module.2
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 delete_module \- unload a kernel module
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
-.BI "int delete_module(const char *" name ", int " flags );
+.BI "int delete_module(const char *" name ", unsigned int " flags );
 .fi
 .PP
 .IR Note :
-- 
2.29.2
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