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-rw-r--r--include/asm-mips/compat.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/compat.h b/include/asm-mips/compat.h
index 432653d7ae0..67c3f8ec030 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/compat.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/compat.h
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ typedef u32 compat_uptr_t;
static inline void __user *compat_ptr(compat_uptr_t uptr)
{
- return (void __user *)(long)uptr;
+ /* cast to a __user pointer via "unsigned long" makes sparse happy */
+ return (void __user *)(unsigned long)(long)uptr;
}
static inline compat_uptr_t ptr_to_compat(void __user *uptr)