At the moment, if p and x are both of the same bitwise type
(eg. __le32), get_user(x, p) produces a sparse warning.
This is because *p is loaded into a long then cast back to typeof(*p).
When typeof(*p) is a bitwise type (which is uncommon), such a cast needs
__force, otherwise sparse produces a warning.
For non-bitwise types __force should have no effect, and should not hide
any legitimate errors.
Note that we are casting to typeof(*p) not typeof(x). Even with the
cast, if x and *p are of different types we should get the warning, so I
think we are not loosing the ability to detect any actual errors.
virtio would like to use bitwise types with get_user() so fix these
spurious warnings by adding __force.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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