Re: __user annotations

From: Hollis Blanchard (hollisb@us.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Jun 06 2003 - 11:46:42 EST


On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 17:07 US/Central, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>>
>> Two ioctl functions in sound/oss/awe_wave.c were directly
>> dereferencing
>> a user-supplied pointer in a few places. Please apply.
>
> When you do patches like this, can you please add the "__user"
> annotations
> while you're at it?

I was hoping for a little more explanation on that before I used it...
for example, will the following code generate a warning? An error?

void func_b(void *b) { }

void func_a(__user void *a)
{
        func_b(a);
}

How about the other way, passing a normal pointer to a function with
__user in its prototype?

I'm just worried that as soon as I use __user once, entire call chains
are going to start spewing warnings/errors.

> Also, if your mailer doesn't rape whitespace, I
> seriously prefer patches in-line in the email, so that I don't have to
> edit the email and can reply to it directly?

I was under the impression that text/plain attachments were ok with
you, but it looks like inline will work too.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

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