Re: [PATCH v4 05/17] module: Switch load_info::len to size_t

[Thomas Weißschuh]

On 2026-02-06 10:09:12+0100, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 13/01/2026 à 13:28, Thomas Weißschuh a écrit :
> > Switching the types will make some later changes cleaner.
> > size_t is also the semantically correct type for this field.
> > 
> > As both 'size_t' and 'unsigned int' are always the same size, this
> > should be risk-free.

> Are you sure ?

As mentioned before by David [0], this should have been 'unsigned long'
instead of 'unsigned int'. Which is also what the diff shows.

> Some architectures have size_t as 'unsigned int', some have 'unsigned long',
> some have 'unsigned long long'

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[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2919071.1770365933@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/