Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:17:02 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH resend] staging, lustre: fix a sparse error |
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:21:16AM +0800, WANG Chao wrote:
> I think __user annotation is for no dereferencing in kernel space. In > this case, I think it's fine to override this error by __force. Because > they're pointers with identical target types.
Umm... The real question seems to be whether iovec is the right type in the first place. Does ->tx_iov ever contain a vector with _userland_ pointers? If not, it ought to be struct kvec * instead.
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