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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: WANG Chao <wangchao19890207@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Masaru Nomura <massa.nomura@gmail.com>,
	Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>, Chi Pham <fempsci@gmail.com>,
	Fredrick John Berchmans <fredrickprashanth@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] staging, lustre: fix a sparse error
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:58:31 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141009122831.GA3300@sudip-PC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412850311-5727-1-git-send-email-wangchao19890207@gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 06:25:10PM +0800, WANG Chao wrote:
> This fixes the following sparse error:
> 
> drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd_lib-linux.c:393:9: error:
> incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
> 
> Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <wangchao19890207@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd_lib-linux.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd_lib-linux.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd_lib-linux.c
> index 245c9d7..1510594 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd_lib-linux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd_lib-linux.c
> @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ ksocknal_lib_csum_tx(ksock_tx_t *tx)
>  	__u32	csum;
>  	void	*base;
>  
> -	LASSERT(tx->tx_iov[0].iov_base == (void *)&tx->tx_msg);
> +	LASSERT((void __force *) tx->tx_iov[0].iov_base == (void *)&tx->tx_msg);
is it ok? are you not just suppressing the sparse error?
iov_base is void __user *  

thanks
sudip

>  	LASSERT(tx->tx_conn != NULL);
>  	LASSERT(tx->tx_conn->ksnc_proto == &ksocknal_protocol_v2x);
>  
> -- 
> 1.9.3
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-09 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-09 10:25 [PATCH resend] staging, lustre: fix a sparse error WANG Chao
2014-10-09 12:28 ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]
2014-10-10  3:21   ` WANG Chao
2014-10-12 19:17     ` Al Viro
2014-10-13  5:58       ` WANG Chao

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