Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: uaccess: Implement strict user copy checks

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > (Taking Martin and Heiko on Cc for s390)
> > 
> > I'd strongly suggest making the behavior the same for everyone. It should
> > be fairly easy to make sure none of these warnings ever triggers
> > on s390, because most of the Linux device driver code does not get build
> > there anyway.
> 
> Please don't do that. An s390 allyesconfig still triggers 45 warnings and
> I'm currently not willing to "patch" working code just to get rid of these
> warnings which are most likely all false positives.
> That's the reason why we currently don't error out and only generate
> warnings.

Can't you just turn that option off then? Or are you worried about
allyesconfig builds?

The current state is confusing because on s390
CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS means that gcc will warn rather
than ignore the finding, while on all others, the same option turns
a warning into an error.

Test-building an allmodconfig on s390 showed these warnings only in
architecture independent code, and I agree that they are all false
positives.

	Arnd