Sadly, access_process_vm takes an unsigned long, rather than a void
__user *. Worse, it's a generic kernel function: changing it would be
a massive, kernel-wide effort.

So, __force the annotation away.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <d...@axtens.net>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
index f52b7db327c8..c2eb319a9239 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, 
compat_long_t request,
                if (get_user(addrOthers, (u32 __user * __user *)addr) != 0)
                        break;
 
-               copied = access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
+               copied = access_process_vm(child, (u64 __force)addrOthers, &tmp,
                                sizeof(tmp), 0);
                if (copied != sizeof(tmp))
                        break;
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, 
compat_long_t request,
                if (get_user(addrOthers, (u32 __user * __user *)addr) != 0)
                        break;
                ret = 0;
-               if (access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
+               if (access_process_vm(child, (u64 __force)addrOthers, &tmp,
                                        sizeof(tmp), 1) == sizeof(tmp))
                        break;
                ret = -EIO;
-- 
2.1.4

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