Re: [PATCH 1/2] src/t_dir_type.c: Use strtoul() instead of atoll()

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On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 01:23:18PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Eryu Guan <eguan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 04:57:08PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Chandan Rajendra
> >> <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > An overlayfs filesystem instance with one lowerdir filesystem and with
> >> > "xino" mount option enabled can have the layer index encoded in the 63rd
> >> > bit of the inode number. A signed 64 bit integer won't suffice to store
> >> > this inode number. Hence this commit uses strtoul() to convert the inode
> >> > number in string form to unsigned integer form.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Looks good, especially since I had to fix the same problem myself ;)
> >> https://github.com/amir73il/xfstests/commits/overlayfs-devel
> >>
> >> My patch also changes:
> >>
> >>         int type = -1; /* -1 means all types */
> >> -       uint64_t ino = 0;
> >> +       unsigned long ino = 0;
> >>         int ret = 1;
> >>
> >> But I am not sure that is the right thing to do here or what difference it makes
> >
> > I think that strtoul() returns unsigned long, which could be 32bit, and
> > uint64_t is guaranteed to be 64bit size, so I tend to change the ino
> > definition too. But I guess that doesn't matter that much :)
> >
> 
> The thing is that 'ino' is later compared with 'd->d_ino', which is uint64_t,
> so on 32bit CPU, the conversion will happen either in assignment from
> strtoul() or in comparison later. I guess it doesn't matter much, so I prefer
> Chandan's version that leaves ino as uint64_t.

Yeah, I noticed that too. I'll take it as-is, thanks!

Eryu
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