From: karthik alapati <mail@karthek.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Mukul Mehar <mukulmehar02@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: wimax: fix sparse incorrect type issue
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:04:00 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YDDzqPT81QBGpTBB@karthik-strix-linux.karthek.com> (raw)
fix sparse warning by casting to explicit user address-space
pointer type
Signed-off-by: karthik alapati <mail@karthek.com>
---
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
index 6f9666dc0..70570e8a5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static int p80211knetdev_do_ioctl(struct net_device *dev,
goto bail;
}
- msgbuf = memdup_user(req->data, req->len);
+ msgbuf = memdup_user((void __user *)req->data, req->len);
if (IS_ERR(msgbuf)) {
result = PTR_ERR(msgbuf);
goto bail;
--
2.30.1
next reply other threads:[~2021-02-20 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-20 11:34 karthik alapati [this message]
2021-02-22 5:40 ` [PATCH] staging: wimax: fix sparse incorrect type issue Dan Carpenter
2021-02-22 6:01 ` karthek
2021-02-22 8:10 ` Dan Carpenter
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