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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/28/21 3:57 PM, Luck, Tony wrote: >> Wouldn't it be safer to do something like: >> >> page->owner = owner ? owner : (void *)-1; >> >> -1 is non-NULL, but also invalid, which makes it harder for us to poke >> ourselves in the eye. > Does Linux have some #define INVALID_POINTER thing that > provides a guaranteed bad (e.g. non-canonical) value? > > (void *)-1 seems hacky. ERR_PTR(-SOMETHING) wouldn't be too bad. I guess it could even be: page->owner = ERR_PTR(SGX_EPC_PAGE_VA); and then: #define SGX_EPC_PAGE_VA 0xffff...something...greppable I *thought* we had a file full of these magic values, but maybe I'm misremembering the uapi magic header.