Re: [PATCH 01/13] seqnum_ops: Introduce Sequence Number Ops

[Shuah Khan]

On 11/10/20 5:20 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 03:58:48PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > Yes we have some instances where unsigned is being used. I considered
> > going to unsigned. Changing the API to unsigned has other ramifications
> > and cascading changes to current atomic_t usages that are up counters.
>
> As in, existing callers expect the "read" value to be int?

Correct. In addition, these values are returned by other functions as
signed and it will result in lot of churn to use unsigned.

thanks,
-- Shuah