Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:08:05PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Some files in the net/9p directory uses "int" for flags. This can
> cause hard to find bugs on some architectures. This patch converts the
> flags to use "long" instead.
> 
> This bug was discovered by doing an allyesconfig make on the -rt kernel
> where checks are done to ensure all flags are of size sizeof(long).

We had checks like that in mainline aswell that caught a lot of errors
like this one.  Probably got lost in one of the gazillions of spinlock
rewrites..

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