linux-kernel - [PATCH] sparse: remove uneffective sparse disabling

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Message-Id: <20180617115355.53799-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 17 Jun 2018 13:53:55 +0200
From:   Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sparse: remove uneffective sparse disabling

Sparse checking used to be disabled on init/do_mounts.c and a few
related files because "Many of the syscalls used in this file expect
some of the arguments to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers".

However since commit 28128c61e ("kconfig.h: Include compiler types to
avoid missed struct attributes") the checks are, in fact, not disabled
anymore because of the more early include of "linux/compiler_types.h"

So remove the now uneffective #undefery that was done to disable
these warnings, as well as the associated comment.

Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
---
 init/do_mounts.c        | 10 ----------
 init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 10 ----------
 init/do_mounts_md.c     | 10 ----------
 init/do_mounts_rd.c     | 10 ----------
 init/initramfs.c        | 10 ----------
 5 files changed, 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index 913910e38..0d0c620d0 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-/*
- * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
- * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
- * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
- */
-#ifdef __CHECKER__
-#undef __CHECKER__
-#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
-#endif
-
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
index 5a91aefa7..d1a5d885c 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
@@ -1,14 +1,4 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/*
- * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
- * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
- * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
- */
-#ifdef __CHECKER__
-#undef __CHECKER__
-#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
-#endif
-
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_md.c b/init/do_mounts_md.c
index 7b18c2b3d..ebee03f83 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_md.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_md.c
@@ -1,14 +1,4 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/*
- * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
- * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
- * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
- */
-#ifdef __CHECKER__
-#undef __CHECKER__
-#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
-#endif
-
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/raid/md_u.h>
 #include <linux/raid/md_p.h>
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_rd.c b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
index 811f22311..115407a3c 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_rd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
@@ -1,14 +1,4 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/*
- * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
- * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
- * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
- */
-#ifdef __CHECKER__
-#undef __CHECKER__
-#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
-#endif
-
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/minix_fs.h>
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index 4a1a27dba..3942b3a09 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -1,14 +1,4 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/*
- * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
- * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
- * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
- */
-#ifdef __CHECKER__
-#undef __CHECKER__
-#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
-#endif
-
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
-- 
2.17.1