Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 1/1] staging: lustre/lustre/llite: get rid of incorrect type warning
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 04:01:57PM -0700, Tolga Ceylan wrote:
In dir.c and llite_lib.c, sparse reports multiple warnings messages
due to different address spaces. This patch resolves these warnings
by adding the tag __user for username addresses.
Signed-off-by: Tolga Ceylan <tolga.ceylan(a)gmail.com>
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