Re: [PATCH v6 11/11] arm64: annotate user pointers casts detected by sparse

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 01:41:16PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:

This patch adds __force annotations for __user pointers casts detected by sparse with the -Wcast-from-as flag enabled (added in [1]).

[1] https://github.com/lucvoo/sparse-dev/commit/5f960cb10f56ec2017c128ef9d16060e...

Hi,

It would be nice to have some explanation for why these added __force are useful.

-- Luc Van Oostenryck