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Commit 2cd50532 authored by Helge Deller's avatar Helge Deller Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fat: use pointer to simple type in put_user()

The put_user(val,ptr) macro wants a pointer to a simple type, but in
fat_ioctl_filldir() the d_name field references an "array of chars".  Be
more accurate and explicitly give the pointer to the first character of
the d_name[] array.

I noticed that issue while trying to optimize the parisc put_user()
macro and used an intermediate variable to store the pointer.  In that
case I got this error:

  In file included from include/linux/uaccess.h:11,
                   from include/linux/compat.h:17,
                   from fs/fat/dir.c:18:
  fs/fat/dir.c: In function `fat_ioctl_filldir':
  fs/fat/dir.c:725:33: error: invalid initializer
    725 |                 if (put_user(0, d2->d_name)                     ||         \
        |                                 ^~
  include/asm/uaccess.h:152:33: note: in definition of macro `__put_user'
    152 |         __typeof__(ptr) __ptr = ptr;                            \
        |                                 ^~~
  fs/fat/dir.c:759:1: note: in expansion of macro `FAT_IOCTL_FILLDIR_FUNC'
    759 | FAT_IOCTL_FILLDIR_FUNC(fat_ioctl_filldir, __fat_dirent)

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> suggested to use

   __typeof__(&*(ptr)) __ptr = ptr;

instead.  This works, but nevertheless it's probably reasonable to fix
the original caller too.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Ygo+A9MREmC1H3kr@p100


Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Acked-by: default avatarOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9ce3c0d2
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