[PATCH] Staging: vt6655: Fix sparse-indicated type mismatch to kmalloc

From: Conrad Meyer
Date: Thu Mar 20 2014 - 20:42:35 EST


Signed-off-by: Conrad Meyer <cse.cem@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Patch is against next-20140320. Fixes a minor sparse warning in the staging
driver vt6655. p->length is u16; implicit cast to size_t is fine. No reason to
cast GFP_KERNEL...
---
drivers/staging/vt6655/wpactl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6655/wpactl.c b/drivers/staging/vt6655/wpactl.c
index d17224f..c27ed5d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6655/wpactl.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6655/wpactl.c
@@ -855,11 +855,11 @@ int wpa_ioctl(PSDevice pDevice, struct iw_point *p)

if (p->length < sizeof(struct viawget_wpa_param) ||
p->length > VIAWGET_WPA_MAX_BUF_SIZE || !p->pointer)
return -EINVAL;

- param = kmalloc((int)p->length, (int)GFP_KERNEL);
+ param = kmalloc(p->length, GFP_KERNEL);
if (param == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

if (copy_from_user(param, p->pointer, p->length)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
--
1.8.5.3

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