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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 02:47:15PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The __user doesn't make sense when casting to an integer type.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
> net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c b/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c
> index 977e9dad72ca4f..713b4b3d02005d 100644
> --- a/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c
> +++ b/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static int __bpfilter_process_sockopt(struct sock *sk, int
> optname,
> req.is_set = is_set;
> req.pid = current->pid;
> req.cmd = optname;
> - req.addr = (long __force __user)optval;
> + req.addr = (__force long)optval;
For casts to integers, even '__force' is not needed (since integers
can't be dereferenced, the concept of address-space is meaningless
for them, so it's never useful to warn when it's dropped and
'__force' is thus not needed).
-- Luc
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