From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Subject: Re: [1/3] powerpc/sparse: constify the address pointer in __get_user_check
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 22:45:13 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3vDdTk0HTPz9s7P@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170130064155.30281-2-dja@axtens.net>
On Mon, 2017-01-30 at 06:41:53 UTC, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> In __get_user_check, we create an intermediate pointer for the
> user address we're about to fetch. We currently don't tag this
> pointer as const. Make it const, as we are simply dereferencing
> it, and it's scope is limited to the __get_user_check macro.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f84ed59a612d866cde0bd17ad2a52a
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-02 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-30 6:41 [PATCH 0/3] powerpc/sparse: constify addresses in get_user macros Daniel Axtens
2017-01-30 6:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/sparse: constify the address pointer in __get_user_check Daniel Axtens
2017-02-02 11:45 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2017-01-30 6:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/sparse: constify the address pointer in __get_user_nocheck Daniel Axtens
2017-01-30 6:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/sparse: constify the address pointer in __get_user_nosleep Daniel Axtens
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