Avoid that sparse reports the following: drivers/scsi/sg.c:1114:41: warning: incorrect type in argument 5 (different address spaces) drivers/scsi/sg.c:1114:41: expected char [noderef] <asn:1>*arg drivers/scsi/sg.c:1114:41: got char *<noident> This patch does not change any functionality. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sg.c b/drivers/scsi/sg.c index f5705a95319f..03194c4b6744 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c @@ -1110,8 +1110,7 @@ sg_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd_in, unsigned long arg) return blk_trace_setup(sdp->device->request_queue, sdp->disk->disk_name, MKDEV(SCSI_GENERIC_MAJOR, sdp->index), - NULL, - (char *)arg); + NULL, p); case BLKTRACESTART: return blk_trace_startstop(sdp->device->request_queue, 1); case BLKTRACESTOP: -- 2.14.1