Re: [PATCH] man/man2/statmount.2: Fix incorrect function signature

Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:07:38 +0200

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-man,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel
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Hi Bhavik, Josef,

> Date: 2026-08-15 13:15:26+0530
> From: Bhavik Sachdev <[email protected]>
>
> flags argument is an unsigned int not an unsigned long [1].
> 
> [1]:
> <https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/namespace.c#L5961>

Thanks!

> Fixes: c011cc992510 (2024-07-09; "statmount.2: Add page")

Please CC the people involved in that commit.  (I've done it now.)

> Signed-off-by: Bhavik Sachdev <[email protected]>
> ---
>  man/man2/statmount.2 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man2/statmount.2 b/man/man2/statmount.2
> index b6d9dc2a1..a365002dd 100644
> --- a/man/man2/statmount.2
> +++ b/man/man2/statmount.2
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Standard C library
>  .P
>  .BI "int syscall(SYS_statmount, struct mnt_id_req *" req ,
>  .BI "            struct statmount *" smbuf ", size_t " bufsize ,
> -.BI "            unsigned long " flags );
> +.BI "            unsigned int " flags );

LGTM.

$ grepc -tfld statmount . | head -n4
./fs/namespace.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE4(statmount, const struct mnt_id_req __user *, req,
		struct statmount __user *, buf, size_t, bufsize,
		unsigned int, flags)
{


Josef, was it just a typo, or is there anything that needs checking?


Have a lovely day!
Alex

>  .P
>  .B #include <linux/mount.h>
>  .fi
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 
> 

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