On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > I think doing IS_ERR() and PTR_ERR() on __iomem pointers is a natural > thing, and we should be able to do this without adding call-site > trickery to make sparse happy. > > Is there some sort of annotation which we can add to the > IS_ERR()/PTR_ERR() definitions so that sparse will stop warning about > this usage?
Yes, the force attribute should silent the address check on conversion. Can some one try this patch (totally untested). Chris diff --git a/include/linux/err.h b/include/linux/err.h index f2edce2..d226a3c 100644 --- a/include/linux/err.h +++ b/include/linux/err.h @@ -26,17 +26,17 @@ static inline void * __must_check ERR_PTR(long error) static inline long __must_check PTR_ERR(const void *ptr) { - return (long) ptr; + return (__force long) ptr; } static inline long __must_check IS_ERR(const void *ptr) { - return IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr); + return IS_ERR_VALUE((__force unsigned long)ptr); } static inline long __must_check IS_ERR_OR_NULL(const void *ptr) { - return !ptr || IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr); + return !ptr || IS_ERR_VALUE((__force unsigned long)ptr); } /** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/