Fixed the following warning reported by sparse about typecasting. A userspace pointer was being typecasted by simply (char *) which causes sparse to give the following warning - warning: cast removes address space of expression Fixed it by adding __user annotation to the typecasting. Signed-off-by: Niranjan Dighe <niranjan.dighe@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/selftest/console.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/selftest/console.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/selftest/console.c index 366211e..64b6a70 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/selftest/console.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/selftest/console.c @@ -1461,9 +1461,9 @@ lstcon_statrpc_readent(int transop, srpc_msg_t *msg, sfwk_stat = (sfw_counters_t __user *)&ent_up->rpe_payload[0]; srpc_stat = (srpc_counters_t __user *) - ((char *)sfwk_stat + sizeof(*sfwk_stat)); + ((char __user *)sfwk_stat + sizeof(*sfwk_stat)); lnet_stat = (lnet_counters_t __user *) - ((char *)srpc_stat + sizeof(*srpc_stat)); + ((char __user *)srpc_stat + sizeof(*srpc_stat)); if (copy_to_user(sfwk_stat, &rep->str_fw, sizeof(*sfwk_stat)) || copy_to_user(srpc_stat, &rep->str_rpc, sizeof(*srpc_stat)) || -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
