From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
To: Stefan Roesch <[email protected]>
Cc: io-uring <[email protected]>,
linux-fsdevel <[email protected]>,
Kernel Team <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] fs: split off do_getxattr from getxattr
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:18:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjqUaF=Vj9f44m7SNxhANwoTCnukm6+HqWnbhhr2KHRsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:15 AM Stefan Roesch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Linus, if we remove the constness, then we either need to cast away the constness (the system call
> is defined as const) or change the definition of the system call.
You could also do it as
union {
const void __user *setxattr_value;
void __user *getxattr_value;
};
if you wanted to..
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-21 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-21 16:49 [PATCH v5 0/5] io_uring: add xattr support Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] fs: split off do_user_path_at_empty from user_path_at_empty() Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] fs: split off setxattr_setup function from setxattr Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] fs: split off do_getxattr from getxattr Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-21 19:15 ` Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 19:18 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-12-21 21:59 ` Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 22:57 ` Jens Axboe
2021-12-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] io_uring: add fsetxattr and setxattr support Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] io_uring: add fgetxattr and getxattr support Stefan Roesch
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