linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: remove address space warnings in net/socket.c

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Date:	Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:46:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	namhyung@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: remove address space warnings in net/socket.c

From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Date: Tue,  7 Sep 2010 22:55:00 +0900

> Casts __kernel to __user pointer require __force markup, so add it. Also
> sock_get/setsockopt() takes @optval and/or @optlen arguments as user pointers
> but were taking kernel pointers, use new variables 'uoptval' and/or 'uoptlen'
> to fix it. These remove following warnings from sparse:
...
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thank you.
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