The patch titled
Subject: fs/fs-writeback.c: adjust dirtytime_interval_handler definition to match prototype
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-adjust-dirtytime_interval_handler-definition-to-match-prototype.patch
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From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fs/fs-writeback.c: adjust dirtytime_interval_handler definition to match prototype
Commit 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
changed ctl_table.proc_handler to take a kernel pointer. Adjust the
definition of dirtytime_interval_handler to match its prototype in
linux/writeback.h which fixes the following sparse error/warning:
fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different address spaces)
fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50: expected void *
fs/fs-writeback.c:2189:50: got void [noderef] __user *buffer
fs/fs-writeback.c:2184:5: error: symbol 'dirtytime_interval_handler' redeclared with different type (incompatible argument 3 (different address spaces)):
fs/fs-writeback.c:2184:5: int extern [addressable] [signed] [toplevel] dirtytime_interval_handler( ... )
fs/fs-writeback.c: note: in included file:
./include/linux/writeback.h:374:5: note: previously declared as:
./include/linux/writeback.h:374:5: int extern [addressable] [signed] [toplevel] dirtytime_interval_handler( ... )
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907093140.13434-1-tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c~fs-adjust-dirtytime_interval_handler-definition-to-match-prototype
+++ a/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -2184,7 +2184,7 @@ static int __init start_dirtytime_writeb
__initcall(start_dirtytime_writeback);
int dirtytime_interval_handler(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;
_
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
fs-adjust-dirtytime_interval_handler-definition-to-match-prototype.patch
