Re: [PATCH] net/core/sock.c: quiet sparse noise

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jan 15 2010 - 04:09:16 EST


From: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:21:45 -0700

> net/core/sock.c: quiet sparse noise
>
> In sock_getsockopt the symbol 'lv' is declared as an
> unsigned int type, probably due to sizeof returning a
> size_t which is really an unsigned int.
>
> This produces a sparse warning for SO_PEERNAME due to
> the sock->ops->getname() call:
>
> warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
> expected int *sockaddr_len
> got unsigned int *<noident>
>
> Quiet the warning my changing the type of 'lv' to an int.
>
> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
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