On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 1:57 PM Serge E. Hallyn [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 01:35:35PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:

quoted

The two syscalls for capget and capset are producing sparse warnings
as sparse is thinking that the "struct __user_cap_data_struct" is marked
user, which seems to be down to the declaration and typedef at the same
time.

Fix the following warnings by splutting the struct declaration and then
the user typedef into two:

I'm not a fan of making code changes to work around scanners'
shortcomings, mainly because eventually I assume the scanners
will learn to deal with it.

However, I don't like the all-in-one typedef+struct definition
either, so let's go with it :)

Paul, do you mind picking this up?

Sure, no problem.  Since we are at -rc7, I'm assuming this can wait
until after the merge window?

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