wdt285: fix sparse warnings

From: Ben Dooks
Date: Tue Sep 16 2008 - 06:31:21 EST


The wdt285.c watchdog driver is producing a number of
sparse errors due to missing __user attributes to calls
to put_user and copy_to_user, as well as in the prototype
of watchdog_write.

wdt285.c:144:21: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
wdt285.c:144:21: expected void [noderef] <asn:1>*to
wdt285.c:144:21: got void *<noident>
wdt285.c:150:9: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces)
wdt285.c:150:9: expected int const [noderef] <asn:1>*register __p
wdt285.c:150:9: got int *<noident>
wdt285.c:159:9: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces)
wdt285.c:159:9: expected int const [noderef] <asn:1>*register __p
wdt285.c:159:9: got int *<noident>
wdt285.c:174:9: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces)
wdt285.c:174:9: expected int const [noderef] <asn:1>*register __p
wdt285.c:174:9: got int *<noident>
wdt285.c:183:12: warning: incorrect type in initializer (incompatible argument 2 (different address spaces))
wdt285.c:183:12: expected int ( *write )( ... )
wdt285.c:183:12: got int ( static [toplevel] *<noident> )( ... )

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@xxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6.27-rc6-quilt3/drivers/watchdog/wdt285.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.27-rc6-quilt3.orig/drivers/watchdog/wdt285.c 2008-09-15 00:00:51.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.27-rc6-quilt3/drivers/watchdog/wdt285.c 2008-09-16 10:37:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ static int watchdog_release(struct inode
return 0;
}

-static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *file, const char *data,
- size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
+static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *file, const char __user *data,
+ size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
{
/*
* Refresh the timer.
@@ -133,21 +133,22 @@ static const struct watchdog_info ident
};

static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
- unsigned long arg)
+ unsigned long arg)
{
unsigned int new_margin;
+ int __user *int_arg = (int __user *)arg;
int ret = -ENOTTY;

switch (cmd) {
case WDIOC_GETSUPPORT:
ret = 0;
- if (copy_to_user((void *)arg, &ident, sizeof(ident)))
+ if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &ident, sizeof(ident)))
ret = -EFAULT;
break;

case WDIOC_GETSTATUS:
case WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS:
- ret = put_user(0, (int *)arg);
+ ret = put_user(0, int_arg);
break;

case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE:
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *
break;

case WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT:
- ret = get_user(new_margin, (int *)arg);
+ ret = get_user(new_margin, int_arg);
if (ret)
break;

@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *
watchdog_ping();
/* Fall */
case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT:
- ret = put_user(soft_margin, (int *)arg);
+ ret = put_user(soft_margin, int_arg);
break;
}
return ret;

--
Ben (ben@xxxxxxxxx, http://www.fluff.org/)

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