Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:00:39 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] init: make sure syscall arguments are marked __user where needed |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:33:23 -0700 H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> wrote:
> When using syscall routines in the kernel, some of the arguments > should be user pointers but are missing the __user markup. This > produces a number of sparse warnings of the format: > > warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) > expected char [noderef] <asn:1>*dev_name > got char *name > > Wrap the syscall routines in the private do_mounts.h header so that > the appropriate __user markups are added for the init mount code.
This makes rather a mess of do_mounts.c for pretty marginal benefit.
Can we just make "make C=1" skip that file or something?
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