From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-15.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECB3C433E0 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332B164DA1 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233856AbhBQPyd (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:54:33 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54254 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233740AbhBQPya (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:54:30 -0500 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E8B9261606; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:53:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1613577230; bh=gPXeb3O9D7B3pY2yqD54kVF5JalQzvyDKHkoN5VIJXU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=EID2ZN1YzyIb+Q8dUVwTLSLvAtlMzLQ88Iw5KwUuBpNpTT8L/nwaiv+paNoWC9yWs jDWRfcra49upqq7YBdMb6T6hEy2/zgpaqt1ERGZ6aCimF8BEK8kEtEE2o46R1CtGUw NtEpRFne6BDaQSmY4mJeDvW7+D93Wkl14Wlx5ZpU= Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:53:48 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Pritthijit Nath Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: Fixed incorrect type warning in p80211netdev.c Message-ID: References: <20210217154255.112115-1-pritthijit.nath@icloud.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210217154255.112115-1-pritthijit.nath@icloud.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 09:12:55PM +0530, Pritthijit Nath wrote: > This change fixes a sparse warning "incorrect type in argument 1 > (different address spaces)". > > Signed-off-by: Pritthijit Nath > --- > 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 6f9666dc0277..70570e8a5ad2 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); Odd. Why isn't data tagged as a __user pointer to start with? thanks, greg k-h