At the moment, if p and x are both tagged as bitwise types, get_user(x, p) produces a sparse warning on many architectures. This is because *p on these architectures is loaded into long (typically using asm), then cast back to typeof(*p). When typeof(*p) is a bitwise type (which is uncommon), such a cast needs __force, otherwise sparse produces a warning. Some architectures already have the __force tag, add it where it's missing. Specificlly, vhost wants to read bitwise types from userspace using get_user. At the moment this triggers sparse errors, since the value is passed through an integer. For now, I worked around this by converting vhost code to access_ok + __get_user, but that's not robust, I'd like to switch to get_user for 3.19. I tested this on x86 only so far. Since it's just adding __force, should be trivially safe everywhere? Please review, and consider for 3.19. Who can merge this? Arnd? Michael S. Tsirkin (18): x86/uaccess: fix sparse errors alpha/uaccess: fix sparse errors arm64/uaccess: fix sparse errors avr32/uaccess: fix sparse errors blackfin/uaccess: fix sparse errors cris/uaccess: fix sparse errors ia64/uaccess: fix sparse errors m32r/uaccess: fix sparse errors metag/uaccess: fix sparse errors microblaze/uaccess: fix sparse errors openrisc/uaccess: fix sparse errors parisc/uaccess: fix sparse errors powerpc/uaccess: fix sparse errors sh/uaccess: fix sparse errors sparc/uaccess: fix sparse errors sparc/uaccess: fix sparse errors xtensa/uaccess: fix sparse errors m68k/uaccess: fix sparse errors arch/alpha/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/avr32/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/blackfin/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/cris/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/ia64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/m32r/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/m68k/include/asm/uaccess_mm.h | 4 ++-- arch/metag/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/microblaze/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/openrisc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 6 +++--- arch/sh/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_32.h | 8 ++++---- arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_64.h | 4 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/xtensa/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 ++-- 18 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
