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| From | James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space |
| Date | 2016-12-07 21:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sLQxH-4mc-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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> > On 12/07/2016 04:33 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > >Lustre is kind of a mess with regards to keeping user and kernel > > >pointers separate. It's not going to be easy to fix. > > Fair enough. > > I am trying to make a contribution to drivers/staging using sparse. > > With that in mind, do you still fill I should keep clear of lustre? > > I feel that actually doing the work properly could be a meaningful > > learning experience. > > It's just that you're the fifth person to look at lustre __user > annotations and it doesn't end well. You need to be a lustre expert > who can test things. > > But for other lustre things, feel free. Actually we are working to fix this issue. We are working on a process that lustre patch posted here get sucked up and put into our test harness automatically. It needs more love but its coming along.
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[PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-02 18:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2016-12-05 22:00 +0100
Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> - 2016-12-06 00:00 +0100
Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 15:00 +0100
Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 16:30 +0100
Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2016-12-07 16:40 +0100
Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 16:50 +0100
Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2016-12-07 20:30 +0100
Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> - 2016-12-07 21:00 +0100
Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> - 2016-12-07 18:20 +0100
Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2016-12-07 16:40 +0100
Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> - 2016-12-07 18:30 +0100
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