[lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to user space

James Simmons jsimmons at infradead.org
Wed Dec 7 19:52:39 UTC 2016


> > 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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