On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:11:31PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> Set userspace communication struct fields to fixed size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1/include/linux/auto_fs4.h.fix-v5-packet-size  
> 2006-02-17 19:15:49.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1/include/linux/auto_fs4.h     2006-02-17 
> 19:12:09.000000000 +0800
> @@ -65,10 +65,10 @@ struct autofs_v5_packet {
>       autofs_wqt_t wait_queue_token;

Hiding types in user visible structures behind typedefs is bad.
What type is behind this?  If this is not an __u32 you have
a padding issue.

>       __u32 dev;
>       __u64 ino;
> -     uid_t uid;
> -     gid_t gid;
> -     pid_t pid;
> -     pid_t tgid;
> +     __u64 uid;
> +     __u64 gid;
> +     __u64 pid;
> +     __u64 tgid;

These should be 32bit values.

>       int len;

this should become a fixed-size type aswell.

>       char name[NAME_MAX+1];
>  };
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h.fix-v5-packet-size     
> 2006-02-17 19:17:03.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h        2006-02-17 
> 19:17:25.000000000 +0800
> @@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ struct autofs_wait_queue {
>       char *name;
>       u32 dev;
>       u64 ino;
> -     uid_t uid;
> -     gid_t gid;
> -     pid_t pid;
> -     pid_t tgid;
> +     u64 uid;
> +     u64 gid;
> +     u64 pid;
> +     u64 tgid;
>       /* This is for status reporting upon return */
>       int status;
>       atomic_t notified;

This is an in-kernel structure, isn't it?  No need to use u64 here.

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