Re: [PATCH] tpm_vtpm_proxy: fix sparse warning

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Thu Jun 16 2016 - 16:34:19 EST


On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:39:38AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 06/16/2016 06:37 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >When running make C=2 M=drivers/char/tpm/
> >
> > CC [M] drivers/char/tpm//tpm_crb.o
> > CHECK drivers/char/tpm//tpm_vtpm_proxy.c
> >drivers/char/tpm//tpm_vtpm_proxy.c:552:32: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
> >drivers/char/tpm//tpm_vtpm_proxy.c:552:32: expected struct vtpm_proxy_new_dev *vtpm_new_dev_p
> >drivers/char/tpm//tpm_vtpm_proxy.c:552:32: got void [noderef] <asn:1>*argp
> >drivers/char/tpm//tpm_vtpm_proxy.c:553:51: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
> >drivers/char/tpm//tpm_vtpm_proxy.c:553:51: expected void const [noderef] <asn:1>*from
> >drivers/char/tpm//tpm_vtpm_proxy.c:553:51: got struct vtpm_proxy_new_dev *vtpm_new_dev_p
> >drivers/char/tpm//tpm_vtpm_proxy.c:559:34: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
> >drivers/char/tpm//tpm_vtpm_proxy.c:559:34: expected void [noderef] <asn:1>*to
> >drivers/char/tpm//tpm_vtpm_proxy.c:559:34: got struct vtpm_proxy_new_dev *vtpm_new_dev_p
> >
> >The __user annotation was missing from the corresponding variable.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> PS: I get similar warnings for line 248 in tpm_crb.c.

Yup, I'll proceed to that next. Thank you.

/Jarkko