[PATCH] staging: bcm: fix pointer-integer size mismatch warnings

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Tue Feb 4 08:21:10 UTC 2014


On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:59:23PM +0900, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Fix the pointer-integer size mismatch warnings below:
> 	drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c: In function ‘StoreCmControlResponseMessage’:
> 	drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1387:39: warning: cast to pointer from
> 			integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> 	  pstAddIndication->psfAuthorizedSet = (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *)ntohl((ULONG)pstAddIndication->psfAuthorizedSet);
> 					       ^
> 	drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1426:37: warning: cast to pointer from
> 			integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> 	  pstAddIndication->psfAdmittedSet = (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *)ntohl((ULONG)pstAddIndication->psfAdmittedSet);
> 					     ^
> 	drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1440:35: warning: cast to pointer from
> 			integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> 	  pstAddIndication->psfActiveSet = (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *)ntohl((ULONG)pstAddIndication->psfActiveSet);
> 					   ^

No.  You haven't fixed the bug, you've just silenced the warning so now
someone has to spent hours and hours looking for it when it comes time
to write a proper fix.  Don't do that.

regards,
dan carpenter




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