Re: 1 New compile/sparse warning (overnight build)

[John Cherry]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 10:33, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29 2004, John Cherry wrote:
> > This sparse warning was introduced with patch 1.2000 (axboe).
> > In fs/bio.c (line 509),
> > 
> > 	if (copy_from_user(addr, (char *) p, bvec->bv_len))
> > 
> > should probably be
> > 
> > 	if (copy_from_user(addr, (char __user *) p, bvec->bv_len))
> 
> It's not a new warning, just look at your own generated output:

Yes, this bug just moved.  Thanks for the fix.

John

> 
> > New warnings:
> > -------------
> > fs/bio.c:509:30: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different
> > address spaces)
> > fs/bio.c:509:30:    expected void const [noderef] *from<asn:1>
> > fs/bio.c:509:30:    got char *<noident>
> > 
> > 
> > Fixed warnings:
> > ---------------
> > fs/bio.c:462:31: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different
> > address spaces)
> > fs/bio.c:462:31:    expected void const [noderef] *from<asn:1>
> > fs/bio.c:462:31:    got char *<noident>
> 
> The warning simply moved. This should fix it, though.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx>
> 
> ===== fs/bio.c 1.67 vs edited =====
> --- 1.67/fs/bio.c	2004-09-28 17:59:14 +02:00
> +++ edited/fs/bio.c	2004-09-29 19:34:39 +02:00
> @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@
>  	 * success
>  	 */
>  	if (!write_to_vm) {
> -		unsigned long p = uaddr;
> +		char __user *p = (char __user *) uaddr;
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * for a write, copy in data to kernel pages
> @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@
>  		bio_for_each_segment(bvec, bio, i) {
>  			char *addr = page_address(bvec->bv_page);
>  
> -			if (copy_from_user(addr, (char *) p, bvec->bv_len))
> +			if (copy_from_user(addr, p, bvec->bv_len))
>  				goto cleanup;
>  			p += bvec->bv_len;
>  		}

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