[PATCH] adjust msgb api

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Max.Suraev at fairwaves.ru
Tue Jan 14 16:36:15 UTC 2014


I see your point. You're right it's better to just switch msgb*room to unsigned -
those values should never be negative anyway.

12.01.2014 19:40, Harald Welte пишет:
> Hi Max,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 05:11:58PM +0100, ☎ wrote:
>> While looking at osmocom-bb compilation warnings I've noticed that
>> there are plenty of those cause by signed-unsigned comparison with
>> msgb-related functions. Attached is a trivial patch which fixes that
>> by changing int -> uint16_t. For the sake of completeness I've also
>> changed other functions to explicitly use uint16_t - this is used for
>> length fields in "struct msgb" anyway.
> 
> I'm not squite sure how you will fix the problem if the return values
> are changed to unit16_t.  All you get is that the result is truncated ?
> 
> Keeping the implementation with unsigend int / int and the
> implementation having uint16_t means that we can still later change the
> implementation [if we ever need msgb's larger than that] with only an
> ABI breakage but no ABI breakage, so I liked that somehow.
> 
>> Although technically it's API change I do not expect any sane code to
>> break. If you still think it's potentially insecure, this could be
>> applied during next api version bump alongside with gprs api change.
> 
> The GPRS API change can be applied at any time, I'm not worried about
> that, really.  But msgb API changes are affecting literally every
> program/project in the Osmocom sphere...
> 
> Summary: Yes, I appreciate this being fixed - but I'd appreciate it even
> more if we didn't have to break the ABI :)
> 


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best regards,
Max, http://fairwaves.ru


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