Re: [PATCH] batman-adv: remove unnecessary type castings

Hi Yu,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on linus/master]
[also build test WARNING on v5.18-rc3 next-20220421]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
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url:    https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Yu-Zhe/batman-adv-remove-unnecessary-type-castings/20220421-235254
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git b253435746d9a4a701b5f09211b9c14d3370d0da
config: x86_64-randconfig-a013 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220422/202204221051.PRtLc0f7-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: gcc-11 (Debian 11.2.0-20) 11.2.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
        # https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/2474b41c585e849d3546e0aba8f3c862735a04ff
        git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux
        git fetch --no-tags linux-review Yu-Zhe/batman-adv-remove-unnecessary-type-castings/20220421-235254
        git checkout 2474b41c585e849d3546e0aba8f3c862735a04ff
        # save the config file
        mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config
        make W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash net/batman-adv/

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <redacted>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

   net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c: In function 'batadv_choose_claim':

quoted

net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c:68:42: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]

      68 |         struct batadv_bla_claim *claim = data;
         |                                          ^~~~
--
   net/batman-adv/translation-table.c: In function 'batadv_choose_tt':

quoted

net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:109:12: warning: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]

     109 |         tt = data;
         |            ^


vim +/const +68 net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c

    53	
    54	static void batadv_bla_periodic_work(struct work_struct *work);
    55	static void
    56	batadv_bla_send_announce(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
    57				 struct batadv_bla_backbone_gw *backbone_gw);
    58	
    59	/**
    60	 * batadv_choose_claim() - choose the right bucket for a claim.
    61	 * @data: data to hash
    62	 * @size: size of the hash table
    63	 *
    64	 * Return: the hash index of the claim
    65	 */
    66	static inline u32 batadv_choose_claim(const void *data, u32 size)
    67	{
  > 68		struct batadv_bla_claim *claim = data;
    69		u32 hash = 0;
    70	
    71		hash = jhash(&claim->addr, sizeof(claim->addr), hash);
    72		hash = jhash(&claim->vid, sizeof(claim->vid), hash);
    73	
    74		return hash % size;
    75	}
    76	

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