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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:40:28 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name> To: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@....com> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@....com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memory: Avoid unnecessary kernel/user pointer conversion On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 08:38:20PM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote: > Annotating a pointer from __user to kernel and then back again might > confuse sparse. In copy_huge_page_from_user() it can be avoided by > removing the intermediate variable since it is never used. > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@....com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> -- Kirill A. Shutemov
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