Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: mtdchar.c silence sparse warning

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 18:22:10 -0700 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:

> The copy_to_user was casting away the address space to get the offset
> of the length member.  Use offsetof() instead and add it to the void __user *argp.
> 
> drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c:527:23: warning: cast removes address space of expression
> drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c:527:23: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
> drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c:527:23:    expected void [noderef] <asn:1>*to
> drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c:527:23:    got unsigned int *<noident>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> index 5d3ac51..3522d4a 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ static int mtd_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
>  		if (ops.oobretlen > 0xFFFFFFFFU)
>  			ret = -EOVERFLOW;
>  		retlen = ops.oobretlen;
> -		if (copy_to_user(&((struct mtd_oob_buf *)argp)->length,
> +		if (copy_to_user(argp + offsetof(struct mtd_oob_buf, length),
>  				 &retlen, sizeof(buf.length)))
>  			ret = -EFAULT;

Cleaner would be:

	struct mtd_oob_buf __user *user_mtd_oob_buf = argp;

	if (copy_to_user(&user_mtd_oob_buf->length, ...

?

(cleaner, faster and shorter would be put_user(), but that's off-topic).