Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jun 2015 01:08:26 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: lustre/lustre/llite: get rid of incorrect type warning | From | Tolga Ceylan <> |
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > Are you sure all of these are correct? The kernel/user api for lustre > is a complex beast, and just casting away the pointer types isn't > usually the proper thing to do in order to resolve the issues here. > > thanks, > > greg k-h
I'm not 100% sure, but the pointers that I added the annotation to end up being used as user memory. (eg. passed to copy_to_user, etc.) Sometimes these pointers are passed to functions that already have __user annotation in their signatures (eg. ll_getname, copy_and_ioctl, ll_fid2path, etc.).
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