Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> > +	err = __get_user(prev, ptr);
> 
> Sigh. Type safety is overrated, right?

But the comment above your __get_user() implementation says:

+ * @ptr must have pointer-to-simple-variable type, and the result of
+ * dereferencing @ptr must be assignable to @x without a cast.