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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ptrace: add __force markup
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:06:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008222206.18523.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282472536-7430-2-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>

On Sunday 22 August 2010 12:22:15 Namhyung Kim wrote:
> index 4afd9b8..1abbb4d 100644
> --- a/kernel/ptrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
> @@ -580,18 +580,19 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
>                 ret = ptrace_setoptions(child, data);
>                 break;
>         case PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG:
> -               ret = put_user(child->ptrace_message, (unsigned long __user *) data);
> +               ret = put_user(child->ptrace_message,
> +                              (unsigned long __user __force *) data);
>                 break;

Maybe you should introduce a new temporary variable

	void __user *p = (void __user __force*)data;

and get rid of all the other casts instead.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-22 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-22 10:22 [PATCH 2/3] ptrace: add __force markup Namhyung Kim
2010-08-22 20:06 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-08-23 16:06   ` [PATCH 2/3 RESEND] ptrace: cleanup address space conversion on ptrace_request() Namhyung Kim
2010-08-23 16:21     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-23 16:38       ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-24 11:45         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-25  7:48           ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-25 11:42             ` Arnd Bergmann

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