Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/uverbs: clean up INIT_UDATA() macro usage

From: Doug Ledford
Date: Wed Sep 27 2017 - 09:10:07 EST


On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 23:34 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> After changing INIT_UDATA_BUF_OR_NULL() to an inline function,
> this does the same change to INIT_UDATA for consistency.
> I'm keeping it separate as this part is much larger and
> we wouldn't want to backport this to stable kernels if we
> ever want to address the gcc warnings by backporting the
> first patch.
>
> Again, using an inline function gives us better type
> safety here among other issues with macros. I'm using
> u64_to_user_ptr() to convert the user pointer to simplify
> the logic rather than adding lots of new type casts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

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