Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: lustre/lustre/llite: get rid of incorrect type warning

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 04:01:57PM -0700, Tolga Ceylan wrote:
> In dir.c and llite_lib.c, sparse reports multiple warnings messages
> due to different address spaces. This patch resolves these warnings
> by adding the tag __user for username addresses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tolga Ceylan <tolga.ceylan@xxxxxxxxx>

Are you sure all of these are correct?  The kernel/user api for lustre
is a complex beast, and just casting away the pointer types isn't
usually the proper thing to do in order to resolve the issues here.

thanks,

greg k-h
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