Re: [PATCH for-4.19] livepatch: use appropriate type for buffer offset variables

["Oleksii K." <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 09:04 +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 8:16 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > 
> > As was made noticeable by the last of the commits referenced below,
> > using a fixed-size type for such purposes is not only against
> > ./CODING_STYLE, but can lead to actual issues. Switch to using
> > size_t
> > instead, thus also allowing calculations to be lighter-weight in
> > 32-bit
> > builds.
> > 
> > No functional change for 64-bit builds.
> > 
> > Link: https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/-/jobs/7136417308
> > Fixes: b145b4a39c13 ("livepatch: Handle arbitrary size names with
> > the list operation")
> > Fixes: 5083e0ff939d ("livepatch: Add metadata runtime retrieval
> > mechanism")
> > Fixes: 43d5c5d5f70b ("xen: avoid UB in guest handle arithmetic")
> > Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> > 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Release-Acked-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>

~ Oleksii