[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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