Re: __user with scalar data types

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:15:09AM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
>
>> Which raised a bikeshed debate over whether it is appropriate to mark a scalar
>> type as __user.  My opinion is that it is appropriate because __user should mark
>> user memory regardless of the container.
>
> What the hell?  __user is a qualifier like const, volatile, etc.  It's a property
> of *pointer* *type*.  Not some nebulous "marks userland memory" thing.
>
>> I'm looking for opinions or semi-authoritative edicts to determine if we should
>> either start changing our uapi headers or go off and try to figure out how to
>> make sparse understand this particular usage.
>
> Stop cargo-culting, please.

Yep that's cargo-culted, but from a quick grep only msm and qxl
headers do this (the other __user annotations in uapi/drm are for
pointers, where it's correct). Adding those maintainers.

Also, if you use u64_to_user_ptr helper macro sparse should have
caught this (if not we'd need to improve the macro).
-Daniel
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