From: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@xxxxxxxxx> The related code can be simplified, and also can avoid related warnings (with allmodconfig under parisc): CC [M] net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.o net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c: In function ‘nfnl_cthelper_from_nlattr’: net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c:97:9: warning: passing argument 1 o ‘memcpy’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-array-qualifiers] memcpy(&help->data, nla_data(attr), help->helper->data_len); ^ In file included from include/linux/string.h:17:0, from include/uapi/linux/uuid.h:25, from include/linux/uuid.h:23, from include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:12, from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/hardware.h:4, from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/processor.h:15, from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/spinlock.h:6, from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h:21, from include/linux/atomic.h:4, from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/bitops.h:12, from include/linux/bitops.h:36, from include/linux/kernel.h:10, from include/linux/list.h:8, from include/linux/module.h:9, from net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c:11: ./arch/parisc/include/asm/string.h:8:8: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘const char (*)[]’ void * memcpy(void * dest,const void *src,size_t count); ^ Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c index 9e287cb..a5599fc 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple(struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple, static int nfnl_cthelper_from_nlattr(struct nlattr *attr, struct nf_conn *ct) { - const struct nf_conn_help *help = nfct_help(ct); + struct nf_conn_help *help = nfct_help(ct); if (attr == NULL) return -EINVAL; @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ nfnl_cthelper_from_nlattr(struct nlattr *attr, struct nf_conn *ct) if (help->helper->data_len == 0) return -EINVAL; - memcpy(&help->data, nla_data(attr), help->helper->data_len); + memcpy(help->data, nla_data(attr), help->helper->data_len); return 0; } -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html