linux-kernel - Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH 7/9] staging: rtl8723bs: Fix incorrect type in argument warnings

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Message-ID: <20191112230012.rl7z3sbde5vtahcm@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:00:12 -0500
From:   "Javier F. Arias" <jarias.linux@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH 7/9] staging: rtl8723bs: Fix
 incorrect type in argument warnings

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 09:11:42AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 11:55 -0500, Javier F. Arias wrote:
> > Fix incorrect type in declarations to solve the 'incorrect
> > type in argument 3' warnings in the rtw_get_ie function calls.
> > Issue found by Sparse.
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> []
> > @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static char *translate_scan(struct adapter *padapter,
> >  {
> >  	struct iw_event iwe;
> >  	u16 cap;
> > -	u32 ht_ielen = 0;
> > +	sint ht_ielen = 0;
> 
> more likely the rtw_get_ie function should used u32
> and not sint.

Thanks for your feedback. I'll update the patchset and CC you as
I can't send anything else to the Outreachy maillist.

> one day a sed of 's/\bsint\b/int/g' would be good too.

I'll probably do this on a couple of involved files.

> 
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