linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs: adjust dirtytime_interval_handler definition to match prototype

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Message-Id: <20200825105521.4563-1-tklauser@distanz.ch>
Date:   Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:55:21 +0200
From:   Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
To:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: [PATCH] fs: adjust dirtytime_interval_handler 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 dirtytime_interval_handler to match its prototype in
linux/writeback.h which fixes the following sparse error/warning:

fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different address spaces)
fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50:    expected void *
fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50:    got void [noderef] __user *buffer
fs/fs-writeback.c:2184:5: error: symbol 'dirtytime_interval_handler' redeclared with different type (incompatible argument 3 (different address spaces)):
fs/fs-writeback.c:2184:5:    int extern [addressable] [signed] [toplevel] dirtytime_interval_handler( ... )
fs/fs-writeback.c: note: in included file:
./include/linux/writeback.h:374:5: note: previously declared as:
./include/linux/writeback.h:374:5:    int extern [addressable] [signed] [toplevel] dirtytime_interval_handler( ... )

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

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index a605c3dddabc..7a6e6155807c 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -2182,7 +2182,7 @@ static int __init start_dirtytime_writeback(void)
 __initcall(start_dirtytime_writeback);

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

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2.27.0