Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: fix sparse warning on LPROC_SEQ_FOPS macros

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 00:03 -0800, Tristan Lelong wrote:
> This patch fix a sparse warning in lustre sources
> 
> warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
>     expected void [noderef] <asn:1>*to
>     got char *<noident>
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/fld/lproc_fld.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/fld/lproc_fld.c
[]
> @@ -87,13 +87,21 @@ fld_proc_hash_seq_show(struct seq_file *m, void *unused)
>  }
>  
>  static ssize_t
> -fld_proc_hash_seq_write(struct file *file, const char *buffer,
> -			size_t count, loff_t *off)
> +fld_proc_hash_seq_write(struct file *file,
> +				const char __user *buffer,
> +				size_t count, loff_t *off)
>  {
>  	struct lu_client_fld *fld;
>  	struct lu_fld_hash *hash = NULL;
> +	char name[80];
>  	int i;
>  
> +	if (count > 80)
> +		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
> +
> +	if (copy_from_user(name, buffer, count) != 0)
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
>  	fld = ((struct seq_file *)file->private_data)->private;
>  	LASSERT(fld != NULL);
>  

Why 80?  Is there no #define for this length?