Re: [PATCH 4/9] debugfs: Silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:50:07PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Enabling DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS causes the following
> warning:
> 
> In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:573,
>                  from include/linux/uaccess.h:5,
>                  from include/linux/highmem.h:7,
>                  from include/linux/pagemap.h:10,
>                  from fs/debugfs/file.c:18:
> In function 'copy_from_user',
>     inlined from 'write_file_bool' at fs/debugfs/file.c:435:
> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:65: warning: call to
> 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning:
> copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
> 
> presumably due to buf_size being signed causing GCC to fail to
> see that buf_size can't become negative.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  fs/debugfs/file.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
> index 89d394d..7ead5b8 100644
> --- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
> @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static ssize_t write_file_bool(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
>  			       size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
>  {
>  	char buf[32];
> -	int buf_size;
> +	size_t buf_size;
>  	u32 *val = file->private_data;

What tree did you make this against?  It doesn't apply to the linux-next
tree :(

Anyway, I can hand edit it, not that big of a deal, but be more careful
the next time around.

greg k-h