From: David Brownell Get rid of annoying GCC warning on 32-bit platforms. drivers/spi/spidev.c: In function 'spidev_message': drivers/spi/spidev.c:184: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size drivers/spi/spidev.c:216: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size The trick is to add an extra cast using "ptrdiff_t" to convert the u64 to the correct size integer, and only then casting it into a "void *" pointer. Signed-off-by: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/spi/spidev.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/spi/spidev.c~spidev-compiler-warning-gone drivers/spi/spidev.c --- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c~spidev-compiler-warning-gone +++ a/drivers/spi/spidev.c @@ -181,7 +181,8 @@ static int spidev_message(struct spidev_ } if (u_tmp->tx_buf) { k_tmp->tx_buf = buf; - if (copy_from_user(buf, (const u8 __user *)u_tmp->tx_buf, + if (copy_from_user(buf, (const u8 __user *) + (ptrdiff_t) u_tmp->tx_buf, u_tmp->len)) goto done; } @@ -213,7 +214,8 @@ static int spidev_message(struct spidev_ buf = spidev->buffer; for (n = n_xfers, u_tmp = u_xfers; n; n--, u_tmp++) { if (u_tmp->rx_buf) { - if (__copy_to_user((u8 __user *)u_tmp->rx_buf, buf, + if (__copy_to_user((u8 __user *) + (ptrdiff_t) u_tmp->rx_buf, buf, u_tmp->len)) { status = -EFAULT; goto done; _