On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 09:19:08AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 8:56:38 AM CEST Mickaël Salaün wrote:

quoted

 include/linux/bpf.h  | 6 ++++++
 kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 6 ------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
index c201017b5730..cf87db6daf27 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h

@@ -283,6 +283,12 @@ static inline void bpf_long_memcpy(void *dst, const void *src, u32 size)
 
 /* verify correctness of eBPF program */
 int bpf_check(struct bpf_prog **fp, union bpf_attr *attr);
+
+/* helper to convert user pointers passed inside __aligned_u64 fields */
+static inline void __user *u64_to_ptr(__u64 val)
+{
+       return (void __user *) (unsigned long) val;
+}
 #else

We already have at least six copies of this helper:

fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:#define u64_to_ptr(x) ((struct btrfs_qgroup *)(uintptr_t)x)

This one does not take __user pointers, unlike the rest. Anyway, the name is
misleading, I'll send a cleanup. Thanks.

kernel/bpf/syscall.c:static void __user *u64_to_ptr(__u64 val)
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_test.c:#define u64_to_uptr(x) ((void __user *)(unsigned long)(x))
drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c:static void __user *u64_to_uptr(u64 value)
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_test.c:#define u64_to_uptr(x) ((void __user *)(unsigned long)(x))
include/linux/kernel.h:#define u64_to_user_ptr(x) (            \

Just use the one in linux/kernel.h

	Arnd