Re: [PATCH repost 03/16] arm64/uaccess: fix sparse errors

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Fri Jan 23 2015 - 10:33:47 EST


On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 09:28:41AM +0000, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> virtio wants to read bitwise types from userspace using get_user. At the
> moment this triggers sparse errors, since the value is passed through an
> integer.
>
> Fix that up using __force.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

I'm not sure who's going to merge this series. In the meantime, I
cherry-picked the arm64 patch. Thanks.

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Catalin
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