On Sat, 2021-04-24 at 08:00 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 08:56:19PM +0530, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:43:13AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 02:31:42PM +0530, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> > > > 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.
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> > struct p80211ioctl_req {
> > char name[WLAN_DEVNAMELEN_MAX];
> > - caddr_t data;
> > + void __user *data;
> >
> > Does this looks ok to you and is there any other check possible if this is ok?
>
> Wait, what is "caddr_t"? Try unwinding that mess first...
Might not be that simple.
include/linux/types.h:typedef __kernel_caddr_t caddr_t;
include/uapi/linux/coda.h:typedef void * caddr_t;
include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h:typedef char * __kernel_caddr_t;
