Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754164AbaA0S6z (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:58:55 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:25104 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753921AbaA0S6o (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:58:44 -0500 From: Vivek Goyal To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, hpa@zytor.com, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, greg@kroah.com, jkosina@suse.cz, Vivek Goyal Subject: [PATCH 05/11] kexec: Make kexec_segment user buffer pointer a union Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:57:45 -0500 Message-Id: <1390849071-21989-6-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1390849071-21989-1-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> References: <1390849071-21989-1-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org So far kexec_segment->buf was always a user space pointer as user space passed the array of kexec_segment structures and kernel copied it. But with new system call, list of kexec segments will be prepared by kernel and kexec_segment->buf will point to a kernel memory. So while I was adding code where I made assumption that ->buf is pointing to kernel memory, sparse started giving warning. Make ->buf a union. And where a user space pointer is expected, access it using ->buf and where a kernel space pointer is expected, access it using ->kbuf. That takes care of sparse warnings. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal --- include/linux/kexec.h | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h index 6d4066c..d8188b3 100644 --- a/include/linux/kexec.h +++ b/include/linux/kexec.h @@ -69,7 +69,18 @@ typedef unsigned long kimage_entry_t; #define IND_SOURCE 0x8 struct kexec_segment { - void __user *buf; + /* + * This pointer can point to user memory if kexec_load() system + * call is used or will point to kernel memory if + * kexec_file_load() system call is used. + * + * Use ->buf when expecting to deal with user memory and use ->kbuf + * when expecting to deal with kernel memory. + */ + union { + void __user *buf; + void *kbuf; + }; size_t bufsz; unsigned long mem; size_t memsz; -- 1.8.4.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/