From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kill a sparse warning in binfmt_elf.c
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:01:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4165927F.5040606@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410071854.i97IsvU5031703@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On 10/7/2004 11:54 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> And then go find the callers and make sure what they're passing is a
> 'const char __user *' rather than a 'const void *'....
Many callers in binfmt_elf.c are passing pointers that are kernel addresses. But file_operations->write() is expecting a __user pointer. The intention of the cast is to explicitly say that's an okay thing to do.
-Arun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-07 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-06 22:45 [PATCH] Kill a sparse warning in binfmt_elf.c Arun Sharma
2004-10-07 18:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-07 18:49 ` Arun Sharma
2004-10-07 18:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-07 19:01 ` Arun Sharma [this message]
2004-10-07 19:16 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-07 22:07 ` Arun Sharma
2004-10-07 19:16 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-07 19:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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