The patch titled Subject: stackleak: let stack_erasing_sysctl take a kernel pointer buffer has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is stackleak-let-stack_erasing_sysctl-take-a-kernel-pointer-buffer.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/stackleak-let-stack_erasing_sysctl-take-a-kernel-pointer-buffer.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/stackleak-let-stack_erasing_sysctl-take-a-kernel-pointer-buffer.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: stackleak: let stack_erasing_sysctl take a kernel pointer buffer Commit 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler") changed ctl_table.proc_handler to take a kernel pointer. Adjust the signature of stack_erasing_sysctl to match ctl_table.proc_handler which fixes the following sparse warning: kernel/stackleak.c:31:50: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different address spaces) kernel/stackleak.c:31:50: expected void * kernel/stackleak.c:31:50: got void [noderef] __user *buffer Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907093253.13656-1-tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler") Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/stackleak.h | 2 +- kernel/stackleak.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/stackleak.h~stackleak-let-stack_erasing_sysctl-take-a-kernel-pointer-buffer +++ a/include/linux/stackleak.h @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ static inline void stackleak_task_init(s #ifdef CONFIG_STACKLEAK_RUNTIME_DISABLE int stack_erasing_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write, - void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); + void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); #endif #else /* !CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK */ --- a/kernel/stackleak.c~stackleak-let-stack_erasing_sysctl-take-a-kernel-pointer-buffer +++ a/kernel/stackleak.c @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(stack_erasing_bypass); int stack_erasing_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write, - void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) + void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { int ret = 0; int state = !static_branch_unlikely(&stack_erasing_bypass); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx are ftrace-let-ftrace_enable_sysctl-take-a-kernel-pointer-buffer.patch stackleak-let-stack_erasing_sysctl-take-a-kernel-pointer-buffer.patch