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/osc/osc_request.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_request.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_request.c index 96c80e9..12113df 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_request.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_request.c @@ -2665,7 +2665,7 @@ static int osc_iocontrol(unsigned int cmd, struct obd_export *exp, int len, buf = NULL; len = 0; - if (obd_ioctl_getdata(&buf, &len, (void *)uarg)) { + if (obd_ioctl_getdata(&buf, &len, uarg)) { err = -EINVAL; goto out; } @@ -2695,7 +2695,7 @@ static int osc_iocontrol(unsigned int cmd, struct obd_export *exp, int len, memcpy(data->ioc_inlbuf2, &obd->obd_uuid, sizeof(uuid)); - err = copy_to_user((void *)uarg, buf, len); + err = copy_to_user(uarg, buf, len); if (err) err = -EFAULT; obd_ioctl_freedata(buf, len); -- 2.1.0 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel