From: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>, <abbotti@mev.co.uk>,
<fmhess@users.sourceforge.net>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: comedi: remove __user annotation inside of struct's
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:41:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201205081641.00358.hartleys@visionengravers.com> (raw)
The structs' comedi_insn, coomedi_insnlist, comedi_cmd,
comedi_chaninfo, and comedi_rangeinfo are all passed to
the kernel from user space using ioctl commands. They
are then copied to kernel space using copy_from_user()
before the data is passed to the drivers.
The __user annotation should not be used with variables
inside the struct. This produces a lot of sparse warnings
like:
warning: dereference of noderef expression
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: Mori Hess <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
Note: This patch exposes some new warnings about different
address space. These will be addressed.
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.h b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.h
index 8ea55ae..2e2f366 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.h
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
struct comedi_insn {
unsigned int insn;
unsigned int n;
- unsigned int __user *data;
+ unsigned int *data;
unsigned int subdev;
unsigned int chanspec;
unsigned int unused[3];
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
struct comedi_insnlist {
unsigned int n_insns;
- struct comedi_insn __user *insns;
+ struct comedi_insn *insns;
};
struct comedi_cmd {
@@ -365,24 +365,24 @@
unsigned int stop_src;
unsigned int stop_arg;
- unsigned int __user *chanlist; /* channel/range list */
+ unsigned int *chanlist; /* channel/range list */
unsigned int chanlist_len;
- short __user *data; /* data list, size depends on subd flags */
+ short *data; /* data list, size depends on subd flags */
unsigned int data_len;
};
struct comedi_chaninfo {
unsigned int subdev;
- unsigned int __user *maxdata_list;
- unsigned int __user *flaglist;
- unsigned int __user *rangelist;
+ unsigned int *maxdata_list;
+ unsigned int *flaglist;
+ unsigned int *rangelist;
unsigned int unused[4];
};
struct comedi_rangeinfo {
unsigned int range_type;
- void __user *range_ptr;
+ void *range_ptr;
};
struct comedi_krange {
next reply other threads:[~2012-05-08 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-08 23:41 H Hartley Sweeten [this message]
2012-05-08 23:55 ` [PATCH] staging: comedi: remove __user annotation inside of struct's H Hartley Sweeten
2012-05-09 10:20 ` Ian Abbott
2012-05-09 10:31 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-05-09 11:01 ` Ian Abbott
2012-05-09 14:19 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-05-10 11:05 ` Ian Abbott
2012-05-09 14:24 ` gregkh
2012-05-09 15:52 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-05-09 15:56 ` gregkh
2012-05-09 16:03 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-05-09 16:41 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-05-09 20:42 ` gregkh
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