Re: [PATCH 1/2 v4] Driver for Freescale 8610 and 5121 DIU

[Scott Wood]

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Scott Wood wrote:
>
> > ...but not anywhere else.  All user pointers should have a __user 
> > annotation.
>
> Even in a typecast?

Yes.  Otherwise, as far as sparse sees, you're passing a kernel pointer 
to something expecting a user pointer.

-Scott
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