fat: use pointer to simple type in put_user()
authorHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:02:22 +0000 (10:02 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:02:22 +0000 (10:02 +1100)
commita344ebac1a6221f84a2e84b1402b4ac2f6a99235
tree26f49d97971644a4c7e14d6f2dfad6d0c4ec27b6
parentce71899752283fef5c00e66bafdf8a34ceb28fe0
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: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
fs/fat/dir.c