Re: [PATCH v7 2/8] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 10:04:52PM -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
>  static struct fw_priv *__allocate_fw_priv(const char *fw_name,
>  					  struct firmware_cache *fwc,
> -					  void *dbuf, size_t size)
> +					  void *dbuf, size_t size,
> +					  size_t offset,
> +					  enum kernel_pread_opt opt)
>  {

Your types are screwed up.  size_t is the size of something in memory.
loff_t is an offset in a file.  This should be an loff_t.  One of the
other patches has the opposite problem.

(this is kind of a minor problem compared to all the complexity
problems, but it's worth mentioning)