[PATCH repost 03/16] arm64/uaccess: fix sparse errors

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Jan 23 07:42:14 PST 2015


On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:33:16PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 09:28:41AM +0000, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 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>
> 
> I'm not sure who's going to merge this series. In the meantime, I
> cherry-picked the arm64 patch. Thanks.

I think there was a pull request for the whole series that went to Arnd, so
I don't think we need to do anything on the arm64 side.

Will



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