On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:15:09AM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote: > Which raised a bikeshed debate over whether it is appropriate to mark a scalar > type as __user. My opinion is that it is appropriate because __user should mark > user memory regardless of the container. What the hell? __user is a qualifier like const, volatile, etc. It's a property of *pointer* *type*. Not some nebulous "marks userland memory" thing. > I'm looking for opinions or semi-authoritative edicts to determine if we should > either start changing our uapi headers or go off and try to figure out how to > make sparse understand this particular usage. Stop cargo-culting, please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
