sparse complains about losing the __user address space due to the cast to long: uaccess_64.h:88:24: sparse: warning: cast removes address space '__user' of expression Annotate it with __force to tell sparse that this is intentional. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __untagged_a * half and a user half. When cast to a signed type, user pointers * are positive and kernel pointers are negative. */ -#define valid_user_address(x) ((long)(x) >= 0) +#define valid_user_address(x) ((__force long)(x) >= 0) /* * User pointers can have tag bits on x86-64. This scheme tolerates @@ -87,8 +87,9 @@ static inline bool __access_ok(const voi if (__builtin_constant_p(size <= PAGE_SIZE) && size <= PAGE_SIZE) { return valid_user_address(ptr); } else { - unsigned long sum = size + (unsigned long)ptr; - return valid_user_address(sum) && sum >= (unsigned long)ptr; + unsigned long sum = size + (__force unsigned long)ptr; + + return valid_user_address(sum) && sum >= (__force unsigned long)ptr; } } #define __access_ok __access_ok