diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
index 6f9666dc0277..70570e8a5ad2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static int p80211knetdev_do_ioctl(struct net_device *dev,
 		goto bail;
 	}
 
-	msgbuf = memdup_user(req->data, req->len);
+	msgbuf = memdup_user((void __user *)req->data, req->len);
 	if (IS_ERR(msgbuf)) {
 		result = PTR_ERR(msgbuf);
 		goto bail;