On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 12:43 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:56:55 -0500
Simo Sorce <simo(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> While looking at a bug I found this issue where we try to cast a
> pointer to an unsigned int to size_t.
> That doesn't work except by luck on a little endian machine, and even
> there if unsigned int != size_t (32 bit machines) overwrite other data
> so we've been also double lucky that whatever was overwritten didn't
> matter.
>
> I may find other issues but this was self-contained enough to merit
> its own patch sent out asap.
>
> Simo.
Ups this patch had a typo ...
Updated patch attached.
New patch with typos fixed (again :-)
Bump up for review.
Simo.
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