netdev - [PATCH] clean up sparse cast warning in do_ip

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Message-ID: <20140720113017.GA8878@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:30:17 +0200
From:	Karoly Kemeny <karoly.kemeny@...il.com>
To:	jmorris@...ei.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: [PATCH] clean up sparse cast warning in do_ip_getsockopt

There is a sparse warning because of the implicit pointer cast in
do_ip_getsockopt.

Signed-off-by: Karoly Kemeny <karoly.kemeny@...il.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index 64741b9..3e4af06 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -1319,7 +1319,7 @@ static int do_ip_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
 		if (sk->sk_type != SOCK_STREAM)
 			return -ENOPROTOOPT;
 
-		msg.msg_control = optval;
+		msg.msg_control = (__force void*) optval;
 		msg.msg_controllen = len;
 		msg.msg_flags = flags;
 
-- 
1.9.1

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