On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:56:12PM -0800, Shalin Mehta wrote: > From: Shalin Mehta <shalinmeht...@gmail.com> > > This issue is showed up while compiling with sparse. The iov_base in struct > iovec struct explicitly declares that the assigned value should be user space > pointer with __user macro. Where as here, the __user macro isn't used while > casting.
... and pointers are not user space ones at all. Which is to say, quit messing with casts; it's not struct iovec. Proper fix is to replace it here (and in almost all places throughout drivers/staging/lustre) with struct kvec. And yes, such a patch had been sent. Still not applied, AFAICS... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
