Re: [PATCH] socket: Provide bounce buffer for constant sized put_cmsg()

[kbuild test robot]

Hi Kees,

I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on linus/master]
[also build test WARNING on v4.15 next-20180201]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Kees-Cook/socket-Provide-bounce-buffer-for-constant-sized-put_cmsg/20180202-113637
reproduce:
        # apt-get install sparse
        make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig
        make C=1 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__


sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)

>> net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1406:17: sparse: incorrect type in initializer (invalid types) @@ expected void _val @@ got void _val @@
   net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1406:17: expected void _val
   net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1406:17: got void <noident>
>> net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1406:17: sparse: expression using sizeof(void)
   In file included from include/linux/compat.h:16:0,
    from include/linux/ethtool.h:17,
    from include/linux/netdevice.h:41,
    from include/net/sock.h:51,
    from include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:29,
    from net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:32:
   net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c: In function 'hci_sock_cmsg':
   include/linux/socket.h:355:19: error: variable or field '_val' declared void
    _val = 14- ^
   net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1406:3: note: in expansion of macro 'put_cmsg'
    put_cmsg(msg, SOL_HCI, HCI_CMSG_TSTAMP, len, data);
    ^~~~~~~~
   include/linux/socket.h:355:26: warning: dereferencing 'void pointer
    _val = 20- ^~~~~~~
   net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1406:3: note: in expansion of macro 'put_cmsg'
    put_cmsg(msg, SOL_HCI, HCI_CMSG_TSTAMP, len, data);
    ^~~~~~~~
   include/linux/socket.h:355:26: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
    _val = 26- ^
   net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1406:3: note: in expansion of macro 'put_cmsg'
    put_cmsg(msg, SOL_HCI, HCI_CMSG_TSTAMP, len, data);
    ^~~~~~~~

vim +1406 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c

767c5eb5 Marcel Holtmann 2007-09-09  1405  
767c5eb5 Marcel Holtmann 2007-09-09 @1406  		put_cmsg(msg, SOL_HCI, HCI_CMSG_TSTAMP, len, data);
a61bbcf2 Patrick McHardy 2005-08-14  1407  	}
^1da177e Linus Torvalds  2005-04-16  1408  }
^1da177e Linus Torvalds  2005-04-16  1409  

:::::: The code at line 1406 was first introduced by commit
:::::: 767c5eb5d35aeb85987143f0a730bc21d3ecfb3d [Bluetooth] Add compat handling for timestamp structure

:::::: TO: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
:::::: CC: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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