At Arnd's request, reposting now that 3.19-rc1 is out. No changes from the original post, except that xtensa and powerpc patches have been merged by maintainers. Please review, and consider for 3.20.
At the moment, if p and x are both tagged as bitwise types, get_user(x, p) produces a sparse warning on many architectures. This is because *p on these architectures is loaded into long (typically using asm), then cast back to typeof(*p). When typeof(*p) is a bitwise type (which is uncommon), such a cast needs __force, otherwise sparse produces a warning. Some architectures already have the __force tag, add it where it's missing. Specificlly, vhost wants to read bitwise types from userspace using get_user. At the moment this triggers sparse errors, since the value is passed through an integer. I tested this on x86 only. Since it's just adding __force, should be trivially safe everywhere? Michael S. Tsirkin (16): x86/uaccess: fix sparse errors alpha/uaccess: fix sparse errors arm64/uaccess: fix sparse errors avr32/uaccess: fix sparse errors blackfin/uaccess: fix sparse errors cris/uaccess: fix sparse errors ia64/uaccess: fix sparse errors m32r/uaccess: fix sparse errors metag/uaccess: fix sparse errors microblaze/uaccess: fix sparse errors openrisc/uaccess: fix sparse errors parisc/uaccess: fix sparse errors sh/uaccess: fix sparse errors sparc/uaccess: fix sparse errors sparc/uaccess: fix sparse errors m68k/uaccess: fix sparse errors arch/alpha/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/avr32/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/blackfin/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/cris/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/ia64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/m32r/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/m68k/include/asm/uaccess_mm.h | 4 ++-- arch/metag/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/microblaze/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/openrisc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/sh/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_32.h | 8 ++++---- arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_64.h | 4 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- 16 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) -- MST -- 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/
