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SubjectRe: [UPDATED PATCH] fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 20:24:12 +0000
> Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> So my main issue with fs/bad_inode.c is not even cast per se; it's that
>> cast is to void *.
>
> But Eric's latest patch is OK in that regard, isn't it? It might confuse
> parsers (in fixable ways), but it is type-correct and has no casts. (Well,
> it kinda has an link-time cast).

Even if it is, I'm starting to wonder if all this tricksiness is really
worth it for 400 bytes or so. :)

-Eric
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