Re: [PATCH 01/13] seqnum_ops: Introduce Sequence Number Ops

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 19:20:40 EST


On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 03:58:48PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> Yes we have some instances where unsigned is being used. I considered
> going to unsigned. Changing the API to unsigned has other ramifications
> and cascading changes to current atomic_t usages that are up counters.

As in, existing callers expect the "read" value to be int?

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Kees Cook