[PATCH v2 03/40] arm64/uaccess: fix sparse errors

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Tue Jan 6 07:43:40 PST 2015


virtio wants to read bitwise types from userspace using get_user.  At the
moment this triggers sparse errors, since the value is passed through an
integer.

Fix that up using __force.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 3bf8f4e..9a2069b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ do {									\
 	default:							\
 		BUILD_BUG();						\
 	}								\
-	(x) = (__typeof__(*(ptr)))__gu_val;				\
+	(x) = (__force __typeof__(*(ptr)))__gu_val;			\
 } while (0)
 
 #define __get_user(x, ptr)						\
-- 
MST




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