linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] staging/lustre: Different prototypes between the declaration and the definition

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Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:28:50 +0100
From:	Loïc Pellegrino <oort10@...il.com>
To:	oleg.drokin@...el.com, andreas.dilger@...el.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	oort10@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] staging/lustre: Different prototypes between the
 declaration and the definition

Align the prototype of lprocfs_wr_uint() in the declaration with the one used 
in the definition.

The prototype is:
int lprocfs_wr_uint(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
                    unsigned long count, void *data)
In obdclass/lprocfs_status.c

But in lustre/include/lprocfs_status.h, the __user annotation is missing for 
the attribute buffer.

The correct prototype is the first one (the definition) since:
- This function is eventually called by the write() function pointer of an 
instance of struct file_operations
- In this function, buffer is a parameter of copy_from_user()
- Before the commit 73bb1da692d0dc3e93b9c9e29084d6a5dcbc37a6, the declaration 
and the definition had the same prototype, but only the .c has been updated.

Correcting this will remove a sparse error and add sparse warnings.
This is a task of the Eudyptula challenge.

Signed-off-by: Loïc Pellegrino <oort10@...il.com>
---
My previous email was not formatted correctly sorry.

 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lprocfs_status.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lprocfs_status.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lprocfs_status.h
index 05b5285..ccb6cd4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lprocfs_status.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lprocfs_status.h
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ extern int lprocfs_rd_atomic(struct seq_file *m, void *data);
 extern int lprocfs_wr_atomic(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
 			     unsigned long count, void *data);
 extern int lprocfs_rd_uint(struct seq_file *m, void *data);
-extern int lprocfs_wr_uint(struct file *file, const char *buffer,
+extern int lprocfs_wr_uint(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
 			   unsigned long count, void *data);
 extern int lprocfs_rd_uuid(struct seq_file *m, void *data);
 extern int lprocfs_rd_name(struct seq_file *m, void *data);
-- 
1.9.3




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