drm/i915: Add to_user_ptr()
to_user_ptr() simply casts a pointer passed as u64 from user space
to void __user * correctly. Using this lets us get rid of all the
tiresome casts.
The idea came from Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>.
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index 62b15f8..669a535 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -1899,4 +1899,9 @@
return VGACNTRL;
}
+static inline void __user *to_user_ptr(u64 address)
+{
+ return (void __user *)(uintptr_t)address;
+}
+
#endif