Re: [PATCH] remove net driver ugliness that sparse complains about

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat May 29 2004 - 22:26:20 EST




On Sat, 29 May 2004 viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Right now there is only one serious false positive I know about.
> put_user(0, dirent->d_name) and its equivanlents in some places.
> That's __typeof__() handling bug.

It should be fixed now. It wasn't typeof, it was a general array derefence
type issue ("*array" needs to pick up the attributes of the array and
apply them to the sub-node).

Lots fewer sparse complaints now. Both sparse fixes and the kernel stuff
pushed out.

Linus
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