Re: [PATCH] doc: ioctl: Add some clarifications to botching-up-ioctls

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Sep 02 2016 - 18:44:28 EST


On Friday, September 2, 2016 3:42:24 PM CEST Laura Abbott wrote:
> - The guide currently says to pad the structure to a multiple of
> 64-bits. This is not necessary in cases where the structure contains
> no 64-bit types. Clarify this concept to avoid unnecessary padding.
> - When using __u64 to hold user pointers, blindly trying to do a cast to
> a void __user * may generate a warning on 32-bit systems about a cast
> from an integer to a pointer of different size. There is a macro to
> deal with this which hides an ugly double cast. Add a reference to
> this macro.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Looks good to me,

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>