netdev - [PATCH] net/9p: Add __force to cast of _

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:16:14 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net/9p: Add __force to cast of __user pointer

A recent commit that removed unnecessary casts of pointers
to the same type uncovered a missing __force cast.

Add it.

Reported by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
---
 net/9p/client.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
index 5cbea90..8260f13 100644
--- a/net/9p/client.c
+++ b/net/9p/client.c
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ p9_client_read(struct p9_fid *fid, char *data, char __user *udata, u64 offset,
 			kernel_buf = 1;
 			indata = data;
 		} else
-			indata = udata;
+			indata = (__force char *)udata;
 		/*
 		 * response header len is 11
 		 * PDU Header(7) + IO Size (4)

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