[PATCH] staging: lustre: fix sparse warning on LPROC_SEQ_FOPS macros

[Tristan Lelong]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 12:28:11AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 00:03 -0800, Tristan Lelong wrote:
> > This patch fix a sparse warning in lustre sources
> > 
> > warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
> >     expected void [noderef] <asn:1>*to
> >     got char *<noident>
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/fld/lproc_fld.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/fld/lproc_fld.c
> []
> > @@ -87,13 +87,21 @@ fld_proc_hash_seq_show(struct seq_file *m, void *unused)
> >  }
> >  
> >  static ssize_t
> > -fld_proc_hash_seq_write(struct file *file, const char *buffer,
> > -			size_t count, loff_t *off)
> > +fld_proc_hash_seq_write(struct file *file,
> > +				const char __user *buffer,
> > +				size_t count, loff_t *off)
> >  {
> >  	struct lu_client_fld *fld;
> >  	struct lu_fld_hash *hash = NULL;
> > +	char name[80];
> >  	int i;
> >  
> > +	if (count > 80)
> > +		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
> > +
> > +	if (copy_from_user(name, buffer, count) != 0)
> > +		return -EFAULT;
> > +
> >  	fld = ((struct seq_file *)file->private_data)->private;
> >  	LASSERT(fld != NULL);
> >  
> 
> Why 80?  Is there no #define for this length?
> 
No, there is no define.

I thought about adding one, but several other files and structure members in the lustre sources are using this specific value, and it seemed like a modification to do in another patch.

Let me know if you feel I should do it in a patch serie.

Regards