Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 01 Sep 2014 16:53:40 +0100 | From | Rob Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open_private() |
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On 01/09/14 16:36, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Rob Jones wrote: > >> void *__seq_open_private(struct file *f, const struct seq_operations *ops, >> - int psize) >> + size_t psize) > > <sarcasm> > It is a horrible limitation to impose, indeed. Why, a lousy > 2 gigabytes per line in procfs file - that's intolerable... > </sarcasm> >
<shrug>
Consistency?
kmalloc() expects a size_t and I haven't heard anyone whingeing about that.
Ultimately, this function calls kmalloc().
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