Re: [PATCH 10/23] afs: switch to use uuid_t and uuid_gen

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On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 10:49 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 09:49:17PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > >  	struct afs_call *call = container_of(work, struct
> > > afs_call,
> > > work);
> > > -	struct uuid_v1 *r = call->request;
> > > +	uuid_t *r = call->request;
> > >  
> > >  	struct {
> > >  		__be32	match;
> > > 
> > 
> > Just to double check that this doesn't create a union aliasing.
> 
> What do you mean with that?

Since we introduced a union it's possible that we might access the
member which wasn't last modified one. So, my comment is to give an
attention on such possibility and avoid if there is an aliasing
happened.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy
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