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SubjectRe: [PATCH repost 12/16] parisc/uaccess: fix sparse errors
Hi Michael,

On 12/25/2014 10:29 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> virtio wants to read bitwise types from userspace using get_user. At the

I don't know the virtio code much yet, but does it makes sense to read bitwise types?
Will virtio then get possible troubles because of endianess correct as well?

Do you have a code example, or the sparse error message ?

Helge

> moment this triggers sparse errors, since the value is passed through an
> integer.
>
> Fix that up using __force.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
> index a5cb070..3a20da6 100644
> --- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
> +++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ struct exception_data {
> } \
> } \
> \
> - (x) = (__typeof__(*(ptr))) __gu_val; \
> + (x) = (__force __typeof__(*(ptr))) __gu_val; \
> __gu_err; \
> })
>
>



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