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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] init: make sure syscall arguments are marked __user where needed
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:43:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120420174319.6cea0e81.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ADE657CA350FB648AAC2C43247A983F002069887E112@AUSP01VMBX24.collaborationhost.net>

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:05:46 -0500 H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> wrote:

> > Can we just make "make C=1" skip that file or something?
> 
> What about putting something like this at the top of the files:
> 
> 
> /*
>  * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
>  * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
>  * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
>  */
> #ifdef __CHECKER__
> #undef __CHECKER__
> #warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
> #endif
> 
> 
> Maybe without the warning if it doesn't seem necessary.
> 
> This keeps <linux/compiler.h> from defining the __attribute__* checks.

That looks nice and explicit.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-21  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-17  0:33 H Hartley Sweeten
2012-04-20 23:00 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-21  0:05   ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-04-21  0:43     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-04-21  0:46       ` H Hartley Sweeten

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