[PATCH] staging: wimax: fix sparse incorrect type issue

karthik alapati mail at karthek.com
Sat Feb 20 11:34:00 UTC 2021


fix sparse warning by casting to explicit user address-space
pointer type

Signed-off-by: karthik alapati <mail at 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



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