Upon running sparse, "warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) is brought to notice for this file.let's add correct typecast to make it cleaner and silence the Sparse warning. Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <eashishkalra@xxxxxxxxx> --- 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); if (IS_ERR(msgbuf)) { result = PTR_ERR(msgbuf); goto bail; -- 2.25.1