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.n...@icloud.com> > --- > 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