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Message-ID: <1282237071.1713.15.camel@leonhard> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:57:51 +0900 From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] initramfs: remove sparse warnings 2010-08-19 (목), 16:38 +0200, Arnd Bergmann: > On Thursday 19 August 2010, Namhyung Kim wrote: > > This patchset removes most of sparse warnings in init/initramfs.c. > > Current implementation of initramfs relies on syscall service rountins heavily > > so it requires many of arguments to be __user address space pointers but, in > > most cases, were missing proper markups. This patchset tries to fix those at > > a minimum change. > > I'm skeptical about this, you are adding obviously incorrect annotations > to the code to make something work that was written without the awareness > for address spaces. > > A better way would be to call path_lookup or kern_path to look up the > path and pass that to a lower-level file I/O function. > > Arnd Thanks for the comment. Then I'll try to refactor/reimplement initramfs code based on your suggestion. -- Regards, Namhyung Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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