3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net>
commit 5d21608a592a9afcac8d82c6478a564e911ce70b upstream.
Building driver wil6210 in 3.10 and 3.11 kernels yields the following errors:
CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.o
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c: In function 'wil_print_ring':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:163:11: error: pointer targets in
passing argument 5 of 'hex_dump_to_buffer' differ in signedness
[-Werror=pointer-sign]
false);
^
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0,
from include/linux/cache.h:4,
from include/linux/time.h:4,
from include/linux/stat.h:18,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:17:
include/linux/printk.h:361:13: note: expected 'char *' but argument is of type
'unsigned char *'
extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len,
^
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c: In function
'wil_txdesc_debugfs_show':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:429:10: error: pointer targets in
passing argument 5 of 'hex_dump_to_buffer' differ in signedness
[-Werror=pointer-sign]
sizeof(printbuf), false);
^
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0,
from include/linux/cache.h:4,
from include/linux/time.h:4,
from include/linux/stat.h:18,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:17:
include/linux/printk.h:361:13: note: expected 'char *' but argument is of type
'unsigned char *'
extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len,
^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[5]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210] Error 2
make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
These errors are fixed by changing the type of the buffer from "unsigned char
*" to "char *".
Reported-by: Thomas Fjellstrom <tho...@fjellstrom.ca>
Tested-by: Thomas Fjellstrom <tho...@fjellstrom.ca>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Thomas Fjellstrom <tho...@fjellstrom.ca>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkond...@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linvi...@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static void wil_print_ring(struct seq_fi
le16_to_cpu(hdr.type), hdr.flags);
if (len <= MAX_MBOXITEM_SIZE) {
int n = 0;
- unsigned char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2];
+ char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2];
unsigned char databuf[MAX_MBOXITEM_SIZE];
void __iomem *src = wmi_buffer(wil, d.addr) +
sizeof(struct wil6210_mbox_hdr);
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int wil_txdesc_debugfs_show(struc
seq_printf(s, " SKB = %p\n", skb);
if (skb) {
- unsigned char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2];
+ char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2];
int i = 0;
int len = skb_headlen(skb);
void *p = skb->data;
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