Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix the warning messages about casting without __user macro

[Andrey Utkin]

2014-12-10 16:49 GMT+02:00 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 07:09:59AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:56:12PM -0800, Shalin Mehta wrote:
>> > From: Shalin Mehta <shalinmehta85@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > This issue is showed up while compiling with sparse. The iov_base in struct iovec struct explicitly declares that the assigned value should be user space pointer with __user macro. Where as here, the __user macro isn't used while casting.
>>
>> ... and pointers are not user space ones at all.  Which is to say, quit
>> messing with casts; it's not struct iovec.  Proper fix is to replace
>> it here (and in almost all places throughout drivers/staging/lustre) with
>> struct kvec.  And yes, such a patch had been sent.  Still not applied,
>> AFAICS...
>
> Yeah, it's in the merge window and I'll pick new staging patches back up
> when 3.19-rc1 is released.

Hi Greg,
Still no commits for
drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd_cb.c since Sun Nov
23 (staging: lustre: Coalesce string fragments) in linux-next. Maybe
the aforementioned commit got missed for merging?

-- 
Andrey Utkin
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