linux-kernel - [PATCH] fork: adjust sysctl_max_threads definition to match prototype

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Message-Id: <20200825093647.24263-1-tklauser@distanz.ch>
Date:   Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:36:47 +0200
From:   Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: [PATCH] fork: adjust sysctl_max_threads definition to match prototype

Commit 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
changed ctl_table.proc_handler to take a kernel pointer. Adjust the
definition of sysctl_max_threads to match its prototype in
linux/sysctl.h which fixes the following sparse error/warning:

kernel/fork.c:3050:47: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different address spaces)
kernel/fork.c:3050:47:    expected void *
kernel/fork.c:3050:47:    got void [noderef] __user *buffer
kernel/fork.c:3036:5: error: symbol 'sysctl_max_threads' redeclared with different type (incompatible argument 3 (different address spaces)):
kernel/fork.c:3036:5:    int extern [addressable] [signed] [toplevel] sysctl_max_threads( ... )
kernel/fork.c: note: in included file (through include/linux/key.h, include/linux/cred.h, include/linux/sched/signal.h, include/linux/sched/cputime.h):
./include/linux/sysctl.h:242:5: note: previously declared as:
./include/linux/sysctl.h:242:5:    int extern [addressable] [signed] [toplevel] sysctl_max_threads( ... )

Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
---
 kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 04975f582015..494ed46dd061 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -3034,7 +3034,7 @@ int unshare_files(struct files_struct **displaced)
 }

 int sysctl_max_threads(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
-		       void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+		       void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	struct ctl_table t;
 	int ret;
-- 
2.27.0