Re: [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: Fixed incorrect type warning in p80211netdev.c

[Ivan Safonov]

On 2/17/21 6:42 PM, pritthijit.nath at icloud.com (Pritthijit Nath) wrote:
> This change fixes a sparse warning "incorrect type in argument 1
> (different address spaces)".
>
> Signed-off-by: Pritthijit Nath <pritthijit.nath at icloud.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 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);
>          if (IS_ERR(msgbuf)) {
>                  result = PTR_ERR(msgbuf);
>                  goto bail;

Reviewed-by: Ivan Safonov <insafonov@xxxxxxxxx>