Re: [PATCH] watchdog: sbc_fitpc2_wdt: add __user annotations
From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Sun Oct 25 2020 - 13:40:47 EST
On 10/25/20 5:45 AM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> After a change to the put_user() macro on x86, kernel test robot has
> started sending me complaints (from sparse) about passing kernel
> pointers to put_user(). So add the __user annotations to the various
> casts in fitpc2_wdt_ioctl(), and while in here, also make the write
> method actually match the prototype of file_operations::write.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
It would really be great if we can get rid of all those old drivers.
Can we mark them all as deprecated ?
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <inux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/sbc_fitpc2_wdt.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/sbc_fitpc2_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/sbc_fitpc2_wdt.c
> index 04483d6453d6a147703e..13db71e165836eb73249 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/sbc_fitpc2_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/sbc_fitpc2_wdt.c
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int fitpc2_wdt_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> return stream_open(inode, file);
> }
>
> -static ssize_t fitpc2_wdt_write(struct file *file, const char *data,
> +static ssize_t fitpc2_wdt_write(struct file *file, const char __user *data,
> size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
> {
> size_t i;
> @@ -125,16 +125,16 @@ static long fitpc2_wdt_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
>
> switch (cmd) {
> case WDIOC_GETSUPPORT:
> - ret = copy_to_user((struct watchdog_info *)arg, &ident,
> + ret = copy_to_user((struct watchdog_info __user *)arg, &ident,
> sizeof(ident)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
> break;
>
> case WDIOC_GETSTATUS:
> - ret = put_user(0, (int *)arg);
> + ret = put_user(0, (int __user *)arg);
> break;
>
> case WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS:
> - ret = put_user(0, (int *)arg);
> + ret = put_user(0, (int __user *)arg);
> break;
>
> case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE:
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static long fitpc2_wdt_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> break;
>
> case WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT:
> - ret = get_user(time, (int *)arg);
> + ret = get_user(time, (int __user *)arg);
> if (ret)
> break;
>
> @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static long fitpc2_wdt_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> fallthrough;
>
> case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT:
> - ret = put_user(margin, (int *)arg);
> + ret = put_user(margin, (int __user *)arg);
> break;
> }
>
>