On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> 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

I'm not 100% sure, but the pointers that I added the annotation to end
up being used as user memory. (eg. passed to copy_to_user, etc.)
Sometimes these pointers are passed to functions that already have
__user annotation in their signatures (eg. ll_getname, copy_and_ioctl,
ll_fid2path, etc.).
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