On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:56:12PM -0800, Shalin Mehta wrote: > From: Shalin Mehta <shalinmeht...@gmail.com> > > This issue is showed up while compiling with sparse. The iov_base in struct > iovec struct explicitly declares that the assigned value should be user space > pointer with __user macro. Where as here, the __user macro isn't used while > casting.
... and pointers are not user space ones at all. Which is to say, quit messing with casts; it's not struct iovec. Proper fix is to replace it here (and in almost all places throughout drivers/staging/lustre) with struct kvec. And yes, such a patch had been sent. Still not applied, AFAICS... _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
