Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Fix cast between incompatible function type

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Aug 04 2021 - 08:49:42 EST


On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 01:32:41AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> Fix sparse warnings of casts between incompatible function
> types from ‘void (*)(void *)’ to ‘void (*)(long unsigned int)’
> [-Wcast-function-type].
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c | 2 +-
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c
> index 2e3f624d0f22..ef722b4a9ddb 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ int rtl8188eu_init_recv_priv(struct adapter *padapter)
> struct recv_buf *precvbuf;
>
> tasklet_init(&precvpriv->recv_tasklet,
> - (void(*)(unsigned long))rtl8188eu_recv_tasklet,
> + (void *)rtl8188eu_recv_tasklet,

The correct fix is to change rtl8188eu_recv_tasklet to take an unsigned
long instead of a pointer. Then you can remove the casting entirely.

The rule here is that you should try avoid casting things to a void
pointer.

regards,
dan carpenter