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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NULL pointer deref at wext ioctl (Re: [PATCH] compat-2.6: adding  ethtool.h to compat-2.6.31.h)
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:05:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1255075519.3713.34.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890910081714u7e1d2168u98c0ccb74915c94c@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 20:14 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> > There are some harmless warnings from using the old header, but
> > otherwise it is working as it should:
> >  CC [M]  /home/Hin-Tak/tmp-git/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/sme.o
> > /home/Hin-Tak/tmp-git/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/sme.c: In
> > function ‘__cfg80211_connect_result’:
> > /home/Hin-Tak/tmp-git/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/sme.c:370:
> > warning: passing argument 4 of ‘wireless_send_event’ discards
> > qualifiers from pointer target type
> > include/net/iw_handler.h:443: note: expected ‘char *’ but argument is
> > of type ‘const u8 *’

> The last argument to wireless_send_event() was changed to be const on
> 2.6.32, cant think of a way to avoid this warning.

Yeah, it was never modified though so the warning is harmless.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-09  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 19:16 NULL pointer deref at wext ioctl (Re: [PATCH] compat-2.6: adding ethtool.h to compat-2.6.31.h) Hin-Tak Leung
2009-10-07 19:28 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-10-07 22:01   ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-08  6:28     ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-10-08  9:51       ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-08 11:50         ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-08 13:43           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-08 14:28             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-08 14:43               ` John W. Linville
2009-10-08 14:59                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-08 23:22             ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-10-09  0:14               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-09  8:05                 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-10-13 21:04                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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