On Sunday 19 August 2007, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 01:27:13AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > And what the cast was doing I can't remember. I may well have just > > copied it from the VFS or I was perhaps trying to silence a warning > > and this happened to work... > > ... due to sparse bug (it miscalculated address space of pointed to, > picking top-level qualifiers for some reason; __user pointer to char > and pointer to __user char gave the same result and so did __user long). > That cast still made no sense...
I could believe that all came from sparse bugs. Fixed now? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/