linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kvm: add missing void __user * cast to access

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Message-ID: <4DDBC4AC.8030906@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 May 2011 17:46:04 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@....ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: add missing void __user * cast to access_ok() call

On 05/24/2011 08:51 AM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> From: Heiko Carstens<heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
>
> fa3d315a "KVM: Validate userspace_addr of memslot when registered" introduced
> this new warning onn s390:
>
> kvm_main.c: In function '__kvm_set_memory_region':
> kvm_main.c:654:7: warning: passing argument 1 of '__access_ok' makes pointer from integer without a cast
> arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:53:19: note: expected 'const void *' but argument is of type '__u64'
>
> Add the missing cast to get rid of it again...
>

Thanks, applied, and queued for 2.6.40/2.8.0/3.0/2011.1, as the case may be.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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