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Date:	Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:13:46 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>,
	anish kumar <anish198519851985@...il.com>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] power: battery: pointer math issue in gab_probe()

psy->properties is an enum (32 bit type) so adding sizeof() puts us
four times further along than we intended.  It should be cast to a char
pointer before doing the math.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
Casting to void * would also work on GCC, at least.

diff --git a/drivers/power/generic-adc-battery.c b/drivers/power/generic-adc-battery.c
index 9bdf444..776f118 100644
--- a/drivers/power/generic-adc-battery.c
+++ b/drivers/power/generic-adc-battery.c
@@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ static int __devinit gab_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	memcpy(psy->properties, gab_props, sizeof(gab_props));
-	properties = psy->properties + sizeof(gab_props);
+	properties = (enum power_supply_property *)
+				((char *)psy->properties + sizeof(gab_props));
 
 	/*
 	 * getting channel from iio and copying the battery properties
--
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