Re: [PATCH v3] sparse: treat function pointers as pointers to const data

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On 8 October 2014 20:06, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8 October 2014 20:00, Christopher Li <sparse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Ard Biesheuvel
>> <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> we only address the case where the function pointer is the target of
>>>> an assignment.
>>
>> I apply the patch in my private branch but haven't push out yet.
>>
>> I just want to confirm, you didn't find this kind of assignment in the
>> kernel, right?
>>
>
> I noticed this patch
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm.git/commit/?h=queue&id=de56fb1923ca11f428bf557870e0faa99f38762e
>
> and saw that it was bogus: changing the return type of the pointed-to
> function to 'const int' makes no sense at all, and yet it shuts up
> sparse.
>
> With my sparse patch, that patch could have been dropped (although I
> think it was merged after all)
>

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