2022-12-30 18:07:44

by Federico Vaga

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Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix typos in botching up ioctls

The type contained a type `uintprt` -> `uintptr`

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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
--
2.30.2