netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: Remove 'const' and '&' to avoid warnings
authorChen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:04:54 +0000 (23:04 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 4 Jul 2015 02:48:08 +0000 (19:48 -0700)
commit b18c5d15e8714336365d9d51782d5b53afa0443c upstream.

The related code can be simplified, and also can avoid related warnings
(with allmodconfig under parisc):

    CC [M]  net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.o
  net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c: In function ‘nfnl_cthelper_from_nlattr’:
  net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c:97:9: warning: passing argument 1 o ‘memcpy’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-array-qualifiers]
    memcpy(&help->data, nla_data(attr), help->helper->data_len);
           ^
  In file included from include/linux/string.h:17:0,
                   from include/uapi/linux/uuid.h:25,
                   from include/linux/uuid.h:23,
                   from include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:12,
                   from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/hardware.h:4,
                   from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/processor.h:15,
                   from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/spinlock.h:6,
                   from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h:21,
                   from include/linux/atomic.h:4,
                   from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/bitops.h:12,
                   from include/linux/bitops.h:36,
                   from include/linux/kernel.h:10,
                   from include/linux/list.h:8,
                   from include/linux/module.h:9,
                   from net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c:11:
  ./arch/parisc/include/asm/string.h:8:8: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘const char (*)[]’
   void * memcpy(void * dest,const void *src,size_t count);
          ^

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@soleta.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c

index a191b6db657e5e2bd007f6fe342da600d58bf668..a9da433c8149a85a27e9a21e349492bfae956530 100644 (file)
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple(struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple,
 static int
 nfnl_cthelper_from_nlattr(struct nlattr *attr, struct nf_conn *ct)
 {
-       const struct nf_conn_help *help = nfct_help(ct);
+       struct nf_conn_help *help = nfct_help(ct);
 
        if (attr == NULL)
                return -EINVAL;
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ nfnl_cthelper_from_nlattr(struct nlattr *attr, struct nf_conn *ct)
        if (help->helper->data_len == 0)
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       memcpy(&help->data, nla_data(attr), help->helper->data_len);
+       memcpy(help->data, nla_data(attr), help->helper->data_len);
        return 0;
 }