Re: [patch] aio: make aio_ring_info->nr_pages an unsigned int

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--- ./include/linux/aio.h.orig	2006-12-24 22:31:55.000000000 -0800
+++ ./include/linux/aio.h	2006-12-24 22:41:28.000000000 -0800
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ struct aio_ring_info {

 	struct page		**ring_pages;
 	spinlock_t		ring_lock;
-	long			nr_pages;
+	unsigned		nr_pages;

 	unsigned		nr, tail;



Hmm.

This seems so trivial as to not be worth it. It'd be more compelling if it was more thorough -- doing things like updating the 'long i' iterators that a feww have over ->nr_pages. That kind of thing. Giving some confidence that the references of ->nr_pages were audited.

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