Re: [PATCH 1/1] Btrfs: fix sparse warning

[Zach Brown]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 09:17:17PM +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> Fix the following sparse warning:
> fs/btrfs/send.c:518:51: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
> fs/btrfs/send.c:518:51:    expected char const [noderef] <asn:1>*<noident>
> fs/btrfs/send.c:518:51:    got char *
> 
> We can safely use (const char __user *) with set_fs(KERNEL_DS)

Yeah, that cast is correct.

Reviewed-by: Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxx>

> @@ -515,7 +515,8 @@ static int write_buf(struct file *filp, const void *buf, u32 len, loff_t *off)

Though this probably wants to be rewritten in terms of kernel_write().
That'd give an opportunity to get rid of the sctx->send_off and have it
use f_pos in the filp.

- z
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