init: disable sparse checking of the mount.o source files

The init/mount.o source files produce a number of sparse warnings of the
type:

warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
   expected char [noderef] <asn:1>*dev_name
   got char *name

This is due to the syscalls expecting some of the arguments to be user
pointers but they are being passed as kernel pointers.  This is harmless
but adds a lot of noise to a sparse build.

To limit the noise just disable the sparse checking in the relevant source
files, but still display a warning so that the user knows this has been
done.

Since the sparse checking has been disabled we can also remove the __user
__force casts that are scattered thru the source.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index 42b0707c3481..d3f0aeed2d39 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.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/module.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
@@ -330,7 +340,7 @@ static int __init do_mount_root(char *name, char *fs, int flags, void *data)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	sys_chdir((const char __user __force *)"/root");
+	sys_chdir("/root");
 	s = current->fs->pwd.dentry->d_sb;
 	ROOT_DEV = s->s_dev;
 	printk(KERN_INFO
@@ -556,5 +566,5 @@ void __init prepare_namespace(void)
 out:
 	devtmpfs_mount("dev");
 	sys_mount(".", "/", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
-	sys_chroot((const char __user __force *)".");
+	sys_chroot(".");
 }