Re: [PATCH V2] doc: fix typo in botching up ioctls

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Dec 30 2022 - 15:23:36 EST




On 12/30/22 09:23, Federico Vaga wrote:
> The type contained a typo `uintprt` -> `uintptr`
>
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@xxxxxxxxxx>


Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> ---
> Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> v1 -> v2 fix the typo in the commit message
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst b/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst
> index ba4667ab396b..9739b88463a5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ will need to add a 32-bit compat layer:
> structures to the kernel, or if the kernel checks the structure size, which
> e.g. the drm core does.
>
> - * Pointers are __u64, cast from/to a uintprt_t on the userspace side and
> + * Pointers are __u64, cast from/to a uintptr_t on the userspace side and
> from/to a void __user * in the kernel. Try really hard not to delay this
> conversion or worse, fiddle the raw __u64 through your code since that
> diminishes the checking tools like sparse can provide. The macro

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~Randy