Re: [PATCH 11/12] VMCI: host side driver implementation.

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Nov 15 2012 - 19:03:22 EST


On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 10:42:53AM -0800, George Zhang wrote:
> +/*
> + * Sets up a given context for notify to work. Calls drv_map_bool_ptr()
> + * which maps the notify boolean in user VA in kernel space.
> + */
> +static int vmci_host_setup_notify(struct vmci_ctx *context,
> + unsigned long uva)
> +{
> + struct page *page;
> + int retval;
> +
> + if (context->notify_page) {
> + pr_devel("%s: Notify mechanism is already set up.\n", __func__);
> + return VMCI_ERROR_DUPLICATE_ENTRY;
> + }
> +
> + if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, (void __user *)uva, sizeof(bool)))
> + return VMCI_ERROR_GENERIC;

This line causes sparse to complain. The odds that userspace knows what
gcc is using for "bool" is pretty low.

Please fix.

thanks,

greg k-h
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