Re: [PATCH] vhost: missing __user tags

From: Jason Wang
Date: Sun May 17 2020 - 23:28:03 EST



On 2020/5/15 äå11:33, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
sparse warns about converting void * to void __user *. This is not new
but only got noticed now that vhost is built on more systems.
This is just a question of __user tags missing in a couple of places,
so fix it up.

Fixes: f88949138058 ("vhost: introduce O(1) vq metadata cache")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index d450e16c5c25..21a59b598ed8 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ static inline void __user *vhost_vq_meta_fetch(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
if (!map)
return NULL;
- return (void *)(uintptr_t)(map->addr + addr - map->start);
+ return (void __user *)(uintptr_t)(map->addr + addr - map->start);
}
/* Can we switch to this memory table? */
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ static void __user *__vhost_get_user_slow(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
* not happen in this case.
*/
static inline void __user *__vhost_get_user(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
- void *addr, unsigned int size,
+ void __user *addr, unsigned int size,
int type)
{
void __user *uaddr = vhost_vq_meta_fetch(vq,


Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>