Re: [PATCH] x86, ftrace: Fix compiler warning in ftrace.c

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed May 18 2011 - 09:30:25 EST


On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 11:02 +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
>

>
> Cause, __probe_kernel_write() currently takes void * as its parameter.
> That means all the users of __probe_kernel_write() currently passes
> void *. If we change __probe_kernel_write's parameter ( src) from void
> * to const void * , then all the callers also needs to do that. Isn't
> it?

No.

Look at __probe_kernel_write() itself. It calls
__copy_to_user_in_atomic() which takes const void *src, where we pass in
void *src. That __probe_kernel_write() having void *src is actually a
bug.

Make that a separate patch, or maybe I'll just do it.

-- Steve



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