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Commit 0dedcf6e authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Thomas Bogendoerfer
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MIPS: BCM47XX: Cast memcmp() of function to (void *)



Clang is especially sensitive about argument type matching when using
__overloaded functions (like memcmp(), etc). Help it see that function
pointers are just "void *". Avoids this error:

arch/mips/bcm47xx/prom.c:89:8: error: no matching function for call to 'memcmp'
                   if (!memcmp(prom_init, prom_init + mem, 32))
                        ^~~~~~
include/linux/string.h:156:12: note: candidate function not viable: no known conversion from 'void (void)' to 'const void *' for 1st argument extern int memcmp(const void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t);

Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202209080652.sz2d68e5-lkp@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
parent 53f9cd5c
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