This patch does away with the cast on void * as it is unnecessary. Semantic patch used is as follows: @r@ expression x; void* e; type T; identifier f; @@ ( *((T *)e) | ((T *)x)[...] | ((T *)x)->f | - (T *) e ) Signed-off-by: Shraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c index 6218ef3..fef6a4e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ int obd_ioctl_getdata(char **buf, int *len, void *arg) int err; int offset = 0; - if (copy_from_user(&hdr, (void *)arg, sizeof(hdr))) + if (copy_from_user(&hdr, arg, sizeof(hdr))) return -EFAULT; if (hdr.ioc_version != OBD_IOCTL_VERSION) { @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ int obd_ioctl_getdata(char **buf, int *len, void *arg) *len = hdr.ioc_len; data = (struct obd_ioctl_data *)*buf; - if (copy_from_user(*buf, (void *)arg, hdr.ioc_len)) { + if (copy_from_user(*buf, arg, hdr.ioc_len)) { err = -EFAULT; goto free_buf; } -- 2.1.0 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel