linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs.git regression fix Re: Regression related to ipc shmctl compat

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Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:37:28 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@...llahan.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs.git regression fix Re: Regression related to ipc
 shmctl compat

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I really wish gcc warned about conversions from pointer to function into
> void *...

Pulled and pushed out, but I'd like to note that sparse would have
caught this. Except we are so far away from being sparse-clean that
nobody runs it.

And I think your recent compat cleanup work actually made it worse,
showing new warnings (including the one that was a real bug)

Oh well.

Patch to at least fix the address space warnings in ipc/ attached.

                    Linus

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