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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Add a temporary to make put_user more type safe.
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:33:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060129113312.73f31485.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601291620.28291.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>

Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> wrote:
>
> >  #define put_user(x,ptr)						\
>  >  ({	int __ret_pu;						\
>  >  	__chk_user_ptr(ptr);					\
>  > -	__typeof__(*(ptr)) __pu_val = x;			\
>  > +	__typeof__(x)*_p_;					\
>  > +	__typeof__(x)__pu_val;					\
>  > +								\
>  > +	_p_ = ptr;						\
>  > +	__pu_val = x;						\
>  >  	switch(sizeof(*(ptr))) {				\
> 
>  - 	switch(sizeof(*(ptr))) {				\
>  + 	switch(sizeof(*(_p_))) {				\
> 
>  > -	case 1: __put_user_1(__pu_val, ptr); break;		\
>  > -	case 2: __put_user_2(__pu_val, ptr); break;		\
>  > -	case 4: __put_user_4(__pu_val, ptr); break;		\
>  > -	case 8: __put_user_8(__pu_val, ptr); break;		\
>  > -	default:__put_user_X(__pu_val, ptr); break;		\
>  > +	case 1: __put_user_1(__pu_val, _p_); break;		\
>  > +	case 2: __put_user_2(__pu_val, _p_); break;		\
>  > +	case 4: __put_user_4(__pu_val, _p_); break;		\
>  > +	case 8: __put_user_8(__pu_val, _p_); break;		\
>  > +	default:__put_user_X(__pu_val, _p_); break;		\
>  >  	}							\
>  >  	__ret_pu;						\
>  >  })
> 
>  Does this now give less warnings?

No, it won't do.   All the warnings were legitimate anyway.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-29 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-29  6:26 Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-29  6:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-29  6:49   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-29  7:51     ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]       ` <200601291620.28291.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
2006-01-29 19:33         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-01-29 20:04           ` [PATCH] i386: instead of poisoning .init zone, change protection bits to force a fault Eric Dumazet
2006-01-29 20:05             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-29 20:28               ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-29 20:56               ` [PATCH, V2] " Eric Dumazet
2006-01-30  9:03                 ` Questions about alloc_large_system_hash() and TLB entries Eric Dumazet
2006-01-30  9:22                   ` David S. Miller
2006-01-30 10:22                     ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-04 22:41                 ` [PATCH, V2] i386: instead of poisoning .init zone, change protection bits to force a fault Andrew Morton
2006-02-05 17:03                   ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-05 19:42                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06  8:53                       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-06  9:02                   ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-06  9:28                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06 10:07                       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-06 10:16                         ` Andrew Morton

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