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-rw-r--r--init/do_mounts_md.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_md.c b/init/do_mounts_md.c
index 32c4799b8c91..8cb6db54285b 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_md.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_md.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/delay.h>
#include <linux/raid/md_u.h>
#include <linux/raid/md_p.h>
@@ -283,7 +293,7 @@ static void __init autodetect_raid(void)
wait_for_device_probe();
- fd = sys_open((const char __user __force *) "/dev/md0", 0, 0);
+ fd = sys_open("/dev/md0", 0, 0);
if (fd >= 0) {
sys_ioctl(fd, RAID_AUTORUN, raid_autopart);
sys_close(fd);