On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:32:08PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Hm, so we should ignore the sparse warning about the original then? IMO that warning is bogus in case of <op>= and if getting rid of a warning obfuscates the code... > > > - data_ptrs = (u8 **) kmalloc(rdwr_arg.nmsgs * sizeof(u8 *), > > > - GFP_KERNEL); > > > + data_ptrs = kmalloc(rdwr_arg.nmsgs * sizeof(u8 __user *), GFP_KERNEL); > > > > While we are at it, what's the type of ->nmsgs? > > include/linux/i2c-dev.h states it is __u32. Any problems with that? Nevermind - it's checked several lines above...