On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 09:58:00PM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
tree:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git
uaccess.net
head: 0edecc020b33f8e31d8baa80735b45e8e8434700
commit: a3929484af75ee524419edbbc4e9ce012c3d67c9 [16/19] atm: move copyin from
atm_getnames() into the caller
config: arm64-randconfig-s002-20200521 (attached as .config)
compiler: aarch64-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0
reproduce:
# apt-get install sparse
# sparse version: v0.6.1-193-gb8fad4bc-dirty
git checkout a3929484af75ee524419edbbc4e9ce012c3d67c9
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
make W=1 C=1 ARCH=arm64 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__'
If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp(a)intel.com>
sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
>> net/atm/ioctl.c:180:29: sparse: sparse: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Huh?
> 180 if (get_user(buf, &iobuf->buffer))
_what_ use of plain integer as a NULL pointer? <looks>
Misannotated get_user() on arm64 - should be
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 32fc8061aa76..bc5c7b091152 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ do { \
__p = uaccess_mask_ptr(__p); \
__raw_get_user((x), __p, (err)); \
} else { \
- (x) = 0; (err) = -EFAULT; \
+ (x) = (__force __typeof__(x))0; (err) = -EFAULT; \
} \
} while (0)
and that's a _lot_ of noise in sparse logs on arm64, obviously - one for
each get_user() of a pointer...