tree:   https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/goldfish android-3.18
head:   d03166b0fbc7b4e2f666b01f48aa26b12a5462d8
commit: 9330a80441f617103f18385993619f05fa948b71 [109/182] batman-adv: Fix debugfs path for renamed hardif
config: x86_64-randconfig-s021-20210322 (attached as .config)
compiler: gcc-5 (Ubuntu 5.5.0-12ubuntu1) 5.5.0 20171010
reproduce:
        # apt-get install sparse
        # sparse version: v0.6.3-277-gc089cd2d-dirty
        git remote add android-goldfish https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/goldfish
        git fetch --no-tags android-goldfish android-3.18
        git checkout 9330a80441f617103f18385993619f05fa948b71
        # save the attached .config to linux build tree
        make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ARCH=x86_64 

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>


sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
>> net/batman-adv/debugfs.c:507:63: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in argument 4 (different modifiers) @@     expected char *new_name @@     got char const *name @@
   net/batman-adv/debugfs.c:507:63: sparse:     expected char *new_name
   net/batman-adv/debugfs.c:507:63: sparse:     got char const *name
   net/batman-adv/debugfs.c: In function 'batadv_debugfs_rename_hardif':
   net/batman-adv/debugfs.c:507:56: warning: passing argument 4 of 'debugfs_rename' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
     d = debugfs_rename(dir->d_parent, dir, dir->d_parent, name);
                                                           ^
   In file included from net/batman-adv/debugfs.c:21:0:
   include/linux/debugfs.h:145:30: note: expected 'char *' but argument is of type 'const char *'
    static inline struct dentry *debugfs_rename(struct dentry *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
                                 ^

vim +507 net/batman-adv/debugfs.c

   492	
   493	/**
   494	 * batadv_debugfs_rename_hardif() - Fix debugfs path for renamed hardif
   495	 * @hard_iface: hard interface which was renamed
   496	 */
   497	void batadv_debugfs_rename_hardif(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface)
   498	{
   499		const char *name = hard_iface->net_dev->name;
   500		struct dentry *dir;
   501		struct dentry *d;
   502	
   503		dir = hard_iface->debug_dir;
   504		if (!dir)
   505			return;
   506	
 > 507		d = debugfs_rename(dir->d_parent, dir, dir->d_parent, name);
   508		if (!d)
   509			pr_err("Can't rename debugfs dir to %s\n", name);
   510	}
   511	

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