fixed sparse warning of incorrect type in argument 1 and incorrect type in
argument 2
it was directly dereferencing a __iomem pointer , which will work in x86 but
will fail in other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <su...@vectorindia.org>
---
hi,
can you please reveiew the patch and check if the approach is correct. If it is
correct then I can send another patch to correct the other similar warnings
present in this file.
drivers/staging/goldfish/goldfish_audio.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/goldfish/goldfish_audio.c
b/drivers/staging/goldfish/goldfish_audio.c
index c89d0b8..f9a13e7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/goldfish/goldfish_audio.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/goldfish/goldfish_audio.c
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ static ssize_t goldfish_audio_read(struct file *fp, char
__user *buf,
struct goldfish_audio *data = fp->private_data;
int length;
int result = 0;
+ void *buffer;
if (!data->read_supported)
return -ENODEV;
@@ -133,9 +134,15 @@ static ssize_t goldfish_audio_read(struct file *fp, char
__user *buf,
AUDIO_READ_BUFFER_AVAILABLE);
/* copy data to user space */
- if (copy_to_user(buf, data->read_buffer, length))
+ buffer = kzalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (buffer == NULL)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ memcpy_fromio(buffer, data->read_buffer, length);
+ if (copy_to_user((void __user *)buf, buffer, length)) {
+ kfree(buffer);
return -EFAULT;
-
+ }
+ kfree(buffer);
result += length;
buf += length;
count -= length;
--
1.8.1.2
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