Re: where is __chk_user_ptr() defined?

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hi, robert
      u can go to search the info about sparse.

2009/9/22 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>  digging into kernel-user space copying and i can see that, depending
> on whether i'm running sparse, i'll get __chk_user_ptr() defined in
> one of two ways in <linux/compiler.h>:
>
> #ifdef __CHECKER__
> ...
> extern void __chk_user_ptr(const volatile void __user *);
> extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
> #else
> ...
> # define __chk_user_ptr(x) (void)0
> # define __chk_io_ptr(x) (void)0
> #endif
>
>  but if i define __CHECKER__, where *is* the external definition of
> those two routines?  i've grepped and can't see them.  thanks.
>
> rday
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Lin

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