linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5 v3] sh: fix READ/WRITE redefinition warnings

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Date:   Fri, 8 Oct 2021 12:46:53 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Takashi YOSHII <takasi-y@....dti.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5 v3] sh: fix READ/WRITE redefinition warnings

On 10/8/21 11:39 AM, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 10/4/21 7:19 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> kernel.h defines READ and WRITE, so rename the SH math-emu macros
>> to MREAD and MWRITE.
> 
> This one doesn't apply for me. My file has:
> 
> #define WRITE(d,a)      ({if(put_user(d, (typeof (d)*)a)) return -EFAULT;})
> 
> But your patch tries to remove:
> 
> -#define WRITE(d,a)     ({if(put_user(d, (typeof (d) __user *)a)) return -EFAULT;})
> 
> Which is odd because git log says my tree is current as of today, but git log on
> this file says it was last updated:
> 
> commit 2e1661d2673667d886cd40ad9f414cb6db48d8da
> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> Date:   Thu May 23 11:04:24 2019 -0500
> 
> What did I miss?

Hi Rob,

I am making patches to linux-next, which contains this:

commit ca42bc4b7bda
Author: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Thu Dec 31 23:23:01 2020 +0000

     sh: fix trivial misannotations

which adds the __user annotations...


-- 
~Randy