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Message-ID: <20141210144921.GC17184@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:49:21 -0500
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Shalin Mehta <shalinmehta85@...il.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	andreas.dilger@...el.com, gdonald@...il.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	bergwolf@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	majordomo@...r.kernel.org, tranmanphong@...il.com,
	HPDD-discuss@...1.01.org, massa.nomura@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix the warning messages about casting
 without __user macro

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 07:09:59AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:56:12PM -0800, Shalin Mehta wrote:
> > From: Shalin Mehta <shalinmehta85@...il.com>
> > 
> > This issue is showed up while compiling with sparse. The iov_base in struct iovec struct explicitly declares that the assigned value should be user space pointer with __user macro. Where as here, the __user macro isn't used while casting.
> 
> ... and pointers are not user space ones at all.  Which is to say, quit
> messing with casts; it's not struct iovec.  Proper fix is to replace
> it here (and in almost all places throughout drivers/staging/lustre) with
> struct kvec.  And yes, such a patch had been sent.  Still not applied,
> AFAICS...

Yeah, it's in the merge window and I'll pick new staging patches back up
when 3.19-rc1 is released.

thanks,

greg k-h
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