On 07/21/2013 02:06 AM, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
On Saturday, July 20, 2013 09:46:48 PM Larry Finger wrote:Building driver wil6210 in 3.10 and 3.11 kernels yields the following errors: CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.o drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c: In function 'wil_print_ring': drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:163:11: error: pointer targets in passing argument 5 of 'hex_dump_to_buffer' differ in signedness [-Werror=pointer-sign] false); ^ In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0, from include/linux/cache.h:4, from include/linux/time.h:4, from include/linux/stat.h:18, from include/linux/module.h:10, from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:17: include/linux/printk.h:361:13: note: expected 'char *' but argument is of type 'unsigned char *' extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len, ^ drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c: In function 'wil_txdesc_debugfs_show': drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:429:10: error: pointer targets in passing argument 5 of 'hex_dump_to_buffer' differ in signedness [-Werror=pointer-sign] sizeof(printbuf), false); ^ In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0, from include/linux/cache.h:4, from include/linux/time.h:4, from include/linux/stat.h:18, from include/linux/module.h:10, from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:17: include/linux/printk.h:361:13: note: expected 'char *' but argument is of type 'unsigned char *' extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len, ^ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make[5]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210] Error 2 make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath] Error 2 make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2 make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 These errors are fixed by changing the type of the buffer from "unsigned char *" to "char *". Reported-by: Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.10] Cc: Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c index e8308ec..ab63676 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static void wil_print_ring(struct seq_file *s, const char *prefix, le16_to_cpu(hdr.type), hdr.flags); if (len <= MAX_MBOXITEM_SIZE) { int n = 0; - unsigned char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2]; + char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2]; unsigned char databuf[MAX_MBOXITEM_SIZE]; void __iomem *src = wmi_buffer(wil, d.addr) + sizeof(struct wil6210_mbox_hdr); @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int wil_txdesc_debugfs_show(struct seq_file *s, void *data) seq_printf(s, " SKB = %p\n", skb); if (skb) { - unsigned char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2]; + char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2]; int i = 0; int len = le16_to_cpu(d->dma.length); void *p = skb->data;Hmm, I have no warning for this with neither 3.10 nor 3.11 kernel version; but patch is correct, and here is my Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks. I did not see any warning or error either; however, it did happen for Thomas. I'm not sure what combination of compiler version and/or switches lead to the problem, but his system apparently uses them.
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