Re: [PATCH v3] staging: gasket: Fix sparse "incorrect type in assignment" warnings.

From: Todd Poynor
Date: Mon Oct 15 2018 - 14:42:38 EST


On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:14 PM Laurence Rochfort
<laurence.rochfort@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Remove the coherent buffer __iomem cookie because the buffer is
> allocated from dma_alloc_coherent().
>
> warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
> expected unsigned char [noderef] [usertype] <asn:2>*virt_base
> got void *[assigned] mem
> warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different address spaces)
> expected void *cpu_addr
> got unsigned char [noderef] [usertype] <asn:2>*virt_base
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurence Rochfort <laurence.rochfort@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Just remove the __iommem cookie, don't alter type.
>
> drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.h b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.h
> index 275fd0b..e62adcd 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.h
> @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ struct gasket_coherent_buffer_desc {
> /* Coherent buffer structure. */
> struct gasket_coherent_buffer {
> /* Virtual base address. */
> - u8 __iomem *virt_base;
> + u8 *virt_base;
>
> /* Physical base address. */
> ulong phys_base;
> --
> 2.9.5

Reviewed-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!