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On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 08:25:25PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> Oooh, it's a sparse bug.

It's *not* a bug.  

> Apparently it's significant that the user pointer is stored as a
> __u64, and __u64 is defined as unsigned long long.

Yes, it is.  Casts to uintptr_t (== unsigned long on all targets)
are OK; any other arithmetical type gives a warning, and quite
deliberately so.

Don't do it.  If you want to say "I'm converting it to integer,
all traces of its origin are gone", use an idiomatic cast.