linux-kernel - [PATCH v5] staging: comedi: comedi_fops.c: added casts to get rid of sparse warnings

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Message-ID: <20200717103031.3mfnlvqo3waolsee@pesu-pes-edu>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 06:30:31 -0400
From:   B K Karthik <bkkarthik@...u.pes.edu>
To:     Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>,
        H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@...an.edu.cn>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
        Divyansh Kamboj <kambojdivyansh2000@...il.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5] staging: comedi: comedi_fops.c: added casts to get rid of
 sparse warnings

fixed sparse warnings by adding a cast in assignment from
void [noderef] __user * to unsigned int __force *
and a reverse cast in argument from
unsigned int * to  unsigned int __user * .

Signed-off-by: B K Karthik <karthik.bk2000@...e.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
---
v1 -> v2:
- Added a reverse cast in argument
v2 -> v3:
- Changed commit description
v3 -> v4:
- Added versioning info in commit description
v4 -> v5:
- Move versioning info below the divider line

 drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index 3f70e5dfac39..9cdc1e8a022d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -2956,7 +2956,7 @@ static int get_compat_cmd(struct comedi_cmd *cmd,
 	cmd->scan_end_arg = v32.scan_end_arg;
 	cmd->stop_src = v32.stop_src;
 	cmd->stop_arg = v32.stop_arg;
-	cmd->chanlist = compat_ptr(v32.chanlist);
+	cmd->chanlist = (unsigned int __force *)compat_ptr(v32.chanlist);
 	cmd->chanlist_len = v32.chanlist_len;
 	cmd->data = compat_ptr(v32.data);
 	cmd->data_len = v32.data_len;
@@ -2983,7 +2983,7 @@ static int put_compat_cmd(struct comedi32_cmd_struct __user *cmd32,
 	v32.stop_src = cmd->stop_src;
 	v32.stop_arg = cmd->stop_arg;
 	/* Assume chanlist pointer is unchanged. */
-	v32.chanlist = ptr_to_compat(cmd->chanlist);
+	v32.chanlist = ptr_to_compat((unsigned int __user *)cmd->chanlist);
 	v32.chanlist_len = cmd->chanlist_len;
 	v32.data = ptr_to_compat(cmd->data);
 	v32.data_len = cmd->data_len;
-- 
2.20.1


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