Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tpmdd tree

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Thu Sep 07 2017 - 12:21:24 EST


Colin, Stephen,

Thank you. I'll apply Colin's fix.

/Jarkko

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:43:37AM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Thanks for reporting that Stephen, I've sent a fix to address this issue.
>
> Colin
>
> On 07/09/17 03:31, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Jarkko,
> >
> > After merging the tpmdd tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> > allmodconfig) produced this warning:
> >
> > drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c: In function 'probe_itpm':
> > drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c:469:31: warning: passing argument 2 of 'tpm_tis_send_data' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
> > rc = tpm_tis_send_data(chip, cmd_getticks, len);
> > ^
> > drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c:255:12: note: expected 'u8 * {aka unsigned char *}' but argument is of type 'const u8 * {aka const unsigned char *}'
> > static int tpm_tis_send_data(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 *buf, size_t len)
> > ^
> > drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c:477:31: warning: passing argument 2 of 'tpm_tis_send_data' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
> > rc = tpm_tis_send_data(chip, cmd_getticks, len);
> > ^
> > drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c:255:12: note: expected 'u8 * {aka unsigned char *}' but argument is of type 'const u8 * {aka const unsigned char *}'
> > static int tpm_tis_send_data(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 *buf, size_t len)
> > ^
> >
> > Introduced by commit
> >
> > 5e35bd8e06b9 ("tpm_tis: make array cmd_getticks static const to shink object code size")
> >
>