linux-kernel - Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space

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Message-Id: <C82920B9-840E-48EA-A770-0846B46F3295@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2016 12:10:10 -0500
From:   Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@...il.com>,
        <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Andreas Dilger" <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space


On Dec 7, 2016, at 10:33 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> Lustre is kind of a mess with regards to keeping user and kernel
> pointers separate.  It's not going to be easy to fix.

Actually I believe I made significant inroads in properly cleaning (almost?) everything
in this area about a year ago (to the point that only false positives were left).
I guess some more stuff crept in, I'll just make another run through and see
what else I can improve.