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From: Anil Shashikumar Belur <askb23@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	silvio.fricke@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bjorn@mork.no
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: staging: vt6655: ioctl.c - missing __user annotation
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:04:11 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D859A3.1010607@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140729091751.GB4856@mwanda>


On Tuesday 29 July 2014 02:47 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:05:38AM +0200, Tobias Klauser wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't it be better to annotate the data member in struct tagSCmdRequest
>> with __user instead of introducing all these casts?

Hi,

Yes, having the data member annotated as '__user' in 'struct
tagSCmdRequest' looks like a much cleaner way for fixing these warnings.
I will re-work on this patch this patch and submit again.

Thanks,
Anil

      reply	other threads:[~2014-07-30  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-28  7:58 [PATCH 1/1] drivers: staging: vt6655: ioctl.c - missing __user annotation Anil Belur
2014-07-29  8:05 ` Tobias Klauser
2014-07-29  9:17   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-07-30  2:34     ` Anil Shashikumar Belur [this message]

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