[PATCH v2] staging: wlan-ng: silence incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) warningJoe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>,

From: Ashish Kalra
Date: Tue Apr 27 2021 - 10:46:07 EST


Abheek Dhawan <adawesomeguy222@xxxxxxxxx>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Romain Perier <romain.perier@xxxxxxxxx>,
Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Allen Pais <apais@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ivan Safonov <insafonov@xxxxxxxxx>,
linux-staging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Upon running sparse, "warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different
address spaces) is brought to notice for this file.let's correct data type for
variable data adding __user to make it cleaner and silence the Sparse
warning. This is version 2 of the patch, version 1 can be found at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/20/203

Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <eashishkalra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211ioctl.h | 2 +-
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211ioctl.h b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211ioctl.h
index ed65ac57a..77e8d2913 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211ioctl.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211ioctl.h
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@

struct p80211ioctl_req {
char name[WLAN_DEVNAMELEN_MAX];
- caddr_t data;
+ char __user *data;
u32 magic;
u16 len;
u32 result;
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
index 70570e8a5..dfb2d2832 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((void __user *)req->data, req->len);
+ msgbuf = memdup_user(req->data, req->len);
if (IS_ERR(msgbuf)) {
result = PTR_ERR(msgbuf);
goto bail;
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static int p80211knetdev_do_ioctl(struct net_device *dev,

if (result == 0) {
if (copy_to_user
- ((void __user *)req->data, msgbuf, req->len)) {
+ (req->data, msgbuf, req->len)) {
result = -EFAULT;
}
}
--
2.25.1