Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:28:12 +0200 | Subject | Re: lustre/lnet/lnet/lib-move.c: memcpy with (struct iovec*)->iov_base, which is __user | From | Andrey Utkin <> |
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2015-01-07 13:32 GMT+02:00 Dilger, Andreas <andreas.dilger@intel.com>: > On 2015/01/07, 1:36 AM, "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: >> Didn't Al change these to kvec instead of iovec? You have to look at >> the callers to figure out if it's actually a user space pointer or a >> kernel pointer. > > A patch was sent by Al on Dec 2 to replace iovec with kvec, in a thread > titled "[PATCH] staging:lustre:lnet: Incorrect type in assignment". Greg > replied on Dec 10 in another thread (also fixing this same warning) titled > "[PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix the warning messages about casting without > __user macro" that Al's patch was in the staging tree for 3.19-rc1.
In current linux-next, I see none of the mentioned patches. Also I don't see them mentioned in GKH's merge commit "Merge tag 'staging-3.19-rc1'..." Is it ok?
-- Andrey Utkin
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