netdev - [net-next v3 13/15] ice: silence static analysis warning

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Date:   Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:44:27 -0800
From:   Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        sassmann@...hat.com, anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com,
        Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>
Subject: [net-next v3 13/15] ice: silence static analysis warning

From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>

sparse warns about cast to/from restricted types which is not
an actual problem; silence the warning.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c
index dc0d82c844ad..0d1092cbc927 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ ice_read_sr_word_aq(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 offset, u16 *data)
 	 * Shadow RAM sector restrictions necessary when reading from the NVM.
 	 */
 	status = ice_read_flat_nvm(hw, offset * sizeof(u16), &bytes,
-				   (u8 *)&data_local, true);
+				   (__force u8 *)&data_local, true);
 	if (status)
 		return status;
 
-- 
2.26.2