linux-kernel - Re: __user with scalar data types

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Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:37:06 +0200
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "Clark, Rob" <robdclark@...il.com>, linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: __user with scalar data types

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com> wrote:
>> Yep that's cargo-culted, but from a quick grep only msm and qxl
>> headers do this (the other __user annotations in uapi/drm are for
>> pointers, where it's correct). Adding those maintainers.
>
> Yep, those looks pointless indeed.
>
>> Also, if you use u64_to_user_ptr helper macro sparse should have
>> caught this (if not we'd need to improve the macro).
>
> And qxl should actually use it.
>
> Fix attached (compile-tested only so far), does that look ok?

Yup. Assuming sparse is happy: Acked-by: me.

Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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