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-rw-r--r--init/initramfs.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index 8216c303b082..84c6bf111300 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+/*
+ * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
+ * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers. To limit the sparse
+ * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
+ */
+#ifdef __CHECKER__
+#undef __CHECKER__
+#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
+#endif
+
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -74,7 +84,7 @@ static void __init free_hash(void)
}
}
-static long __init do_utime(char __user *filename, time_t mtime)
+static long __init do_utime(char *filename, time_t mtime)
{
struct timespec t[2];
@@ -529,7 +539,7 @@ static void __init clean_rootfs(void)
struct linux_dirent64 *dirp;
int num;
- fd = sys_open((const char __user __force *) "/", O_RDONLY, 0);
+ fd = sys_open("/", O_RDONLY, 0);
WARN_ON(fd < 0);
if (fd < 0)
return;
@@ -589,7 +599,7 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
}
printk(KERN_INFO "rootfs image is not initramfs (%s)"
"; looks like an initrd\n", err);
- fd = sys_open((const char __user __force *) "/initrd.image",
+ fd = sys_open("/initrd.image",
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0700);
if (fd >= 0) {
sys_write(fd, (char *)initrd_start,