linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: lusten: conrpc.c: fix different address space sparse warning

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Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 23:14:06 -0300
From:   Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@...il.com>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@...il.com>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
        Doug Oucharek <doug.s.oucharek@...el.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: lusten: conrpc.c: fix different address space sparse warning

head_up parameter is marked with __user attribute, tmp is filled
by a copy_from_user from next, that is also marked as __user, so
tmp.next needs to be "casted" as __user to make sparse happy.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@...il.com>
---

 this is mt first patch addressing an issue of sparse, so let me know
 if I misunderstood the error message

 drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/selftest/conrpc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/selftest/conrpc.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/selftest/conrpc.c
index c6a683b..fb7ad74 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/selftest/conrpc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/selftest/conrpc.c
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ lstcon_rpc_trans_interpreter(struct lstcon_rpc_trans *trans,
 				   sizeof(struct list_head)))
 			return -EFAULT;
 
-		if (tmp.next == head_up)
+		if ((struct list_head __user *)tmp.next == head_up)
 			return 0;
 
 		next = tmp.next;
-- 
2.9.3