The commit ffb07550c76f ("copy_msghdr_from_user(): get rid of
field-by-field copyin") introduce a new sparse warning:
net/socket.c:1919:27: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address
spaces)
net/socket.c:1919:27: expected void *msg_control
net/socket.c:1919:27: got void [noderef] <asn:1>*[addressable] msg_control
and a line above 80 chars, let's fix them
Fixes: ffb07550c76f ("copy_msghdr_from_user(): get rid of field-by-field
copyin")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
---
I noticed only because I had a very similar commit pending;
replacing the field-by-field copyin with a single copy_from_user()
gives measurable performance improvements - more than 10% under
UDP flood if using recvmsg() to sink the traffic
---
net/socket.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index bf21226..ad22df1 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1916,7 +1916,7 @@ static int copy_msghdr_from_user(struct msghdr *kmsg,
if (copy_from_user(&msg, umsg, sizeof(*umsg)))
return -EFAULT;
- kmsg->msg_control = msg.msg_control;
+ kmsg->msg_control = (void __force *)msg.msg_control;
kmsg->msg_controllen = msg.msg_controllen;
kmsg->msg_flags = msg.msg_flags;
@@ -1935,7 +1935,8 @@ static int copy_msghdr_from_user(struct msghdr *kmsg,
if (msg.msg_name && kmsg->msg_namelen) {
if (!save_addr) {
- err = move_addr_to_kernel(msg.msg_name,
kmsg->msg_namelen,
+ err = move_addr_to_kernel(msg.msg_name,
+ kmsg->msg_namelen,
kmsg->msg_name);
if (err < 0)
return err;
--
2.9.4