Re: [PATCH] Kill a sparse warning in binfmt_elf.c

[Arun Sharma]

On 10/7/2004 11:54 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> And then go find the callers and make sure what they're passing is a
> 'const char __user *' rather than a 'const void *'....

Many callers in binfmt_elf.c are passing pointers that are kernel addresses. But file_operations->write() is expecting a __user pointer. The intention of the cast is to explicitly say that's an okay thing to do.

	-Arun

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