Re: [PATCH v6 11/11] arm64: annotate user pointers casts detected by sparse

Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-08-31T12:17:44Z

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 01:41:16PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> This patch adds __force annotations for __user pointers casts detected by
> sparse with the -Wcast-from-as flag enabled (added in [1]).
>
> [1] https://github.com/lucvoo/sparse-dev/commit/5f960cb10f56ec2017c128ef9d16060e0145f292

Hi,

It would be nice to have some explanation for why these added __force
are useful.

-- Luc Van Oostenryck