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

[Greg KH]

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 <pritthijit.nath@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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