On 2/26/19 9:18 AM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:

quoted

This seems like something
where we would ideally add an __tagged annotation (or something) to the
source tree and then have sparse rules that can look for missed untags.

This has been suggested before, search for __untagged here [1].
However there are many places in the kernel where a __user pointer is
casted into unsigned long and passed further. I'm not sure if it's
possible apply a __tagged/__untagged kind of attribute to non-pointer
types, is it?

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10581535/

I believe we have sparse checking __GFP_* flags.  We also have a gfp_t
for them and I'm unsure whether the sparse support is tied to _that_ or
whether it's just by tagging the type itself as being part of a discrete
address space.

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