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

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:42:14PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:33:16PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think there was a pull request for the whole series that went to Arnd, so
> I don't think we need to do anything on the arm64 side.

OK. I dropped the patch.

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Catalin
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