[PATCH 1/2] riscv: Fix sparse warning in __get_user_error()

Cyril Bur cyrilbur at tenstorrent.com
Wed Sep 3 17:34:17 PDT 2025


These two are on me. Sorry.

Thanks for fixing them Alexandre.

On 4/9/2025 4:53 am, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> We used to assign 0 to x without an appropriate cast which results in
> sparse complaining when x is a pointer:
> 
>>> block/ioctl.c:72:39: sparse: sparse: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
> 
> So fix this by casting 0 to the correct type of x.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202508062321.gHv4kvuY-lkp@intel.com/
> Fixes: f6bff7827a48 ("riscv: uaccess: use 'asm_goto_output' for get_user()")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com>

Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at tenstorrent.com>

> ---
>   arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h
> index 22e3f52a763d1c0350e8185225e4c99aac3fc549..551e7490737effb2c238e6a4db50293ece7c9df9 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h
> @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ do {									\
>   		err = 0;						\
>   		break;							\
>   __gu_failed:								\
> -		x = 0;							\
> +		x = (__typeof__(x))0;					\
>   		err = -EFAULT;						\
>   } while (0)
>   
> 




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