A recent commit factored out a series of annoying (unsigned long) casts
into a single variable declaration, but made the pointer type a
`uintptr_t` rather than the usual `unsigned long`. This patch changes it
to be the integer type more typically used by the kernel to represent
addresses.
Fixes: 35fb9ae4aa2e ("usercopy: Cast pointer to an integer once")
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/usercopy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
index 4e1da708699b..c1ee15a98633 100644
--- a/mm/usercopy.c
+++ b/mm/usercopy.c
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static inline void check_bogus_address(const unsigned long ptr, unsigned long n,
static inline void check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
bool to_user)
{
- uintptr_t addr = (uintptr_t)ptr;
+ unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr;
unsigned long offset;
struct folio *folio;
--
2.35.1
