On 02/09/2018 07:24 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
gcc-8 points out that source and destination of the memcpy() are
always the same pointer, so the effect of memcpy() is undefined
here (its arguments must not overlap):
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c: In function
'_rtl_rx_process':
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c:430:2: error: 'memcpy'
source argument is the same as destination [-Werror=restrict]
Most likely this is harmless, but it's easy to just remove the
line and get rid of the warning.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
---
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
index ac4a82de40c7..9ab56827124e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
@@ -427,7 +427,6 @@ static void _rtl_rx_process(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct
sk_buff *skb)
(u32)hdr->addr1[0], (u32)hdr->addr1[1],
(u32)hdr->addr1[2], (u32)hdr->addr1[3],
(u32)hdr->addr1[4], (u32)hdr->addr1[5]);
- memcpy(IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb), rx_status, sizeof(*rx_status));
ieee80211_rx(hw, skb);
}
Argh. Once again I got tripped up on pointers. Yes, this patch is correct.
Acked-by: Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net>
Sorry about the noise.
Larry