[libvirt] [PATCH 6/7] Fix sign mismatches between public API, driver API and XDR protocol

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:36:09PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> In most cases this affects flags parameters that are unsigned in the
> public and driver API but signed in the XDR protocol. Switch the
> XDR protocol to unsigned for those.
> 
> A counterexample is virNWFilterGetXMLDesc. Its flags parameter is signed
> in the public API and XDR protocol, but unsigned in the driver API.

For the record, the XDR code confirms this is ok. Compare the xdr_int32
with xdr_uint32 functions:

bool_t
xdr_int32_t (XDR *xdrs, int32_t *lp)
{
  switch (xdrs->x_op)
    {
    case XDR_ENCODE:
      return XDR_PUTINT32 (xdrs, lp);
    case XDR_DECODE:
      return XDR_GETINT32 (xdrs, lp);
    case XDR_FREE:
      return TRUE;
    default:
      return FALSE;
    }
}

/* XDR 32bit unsigned integers */
bool_t
xdr_uint32_t (XDR *xdrs, uint32_t *ulp)
{
  switch (xdrs->x_op)
    {
    case XDR_ENCODE:
      return XDR_PUTINT32 (xdrs, (int32_t *) ulp);
    case XDR_DECODE:
      return XDR_GETINT32 (xdrs, (int32_t *) ulp);
    case XDR_FREE:
      return TRUE;
    default:
      return FALSE;
    }
}


So the uint32 function just casts to an int32 and put
that on the wire. So there's no difference at all.

Daniel
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