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/lov/lov_obd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_obd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_obd.c index 5f4c115..c5c67d9 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_obd.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_obd.c @@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ static int lov_iocontrol(unsigned int cmd, struct obd_export *exp, int len, __u32 *genp; len = 0; - if (obd_ioctl_getdata(&buf, &len, (void *)uarg)) + if (obd_ioctl_getdata(&buf, &len, uarg)) return -EINVAL; data = (struct obd_ioctl_data *)buf; @@ -1473,7 +1473,7 @@ static int lov_iocontrol(unsigned int cmd, struct obd_export *exp, int len, *genp = lov->lov_tgts[i]->ltd_gen; } - if (copy_to_user((void *)uarg, buf, len)) + if (copy_to_user(uarg, buf, len)) rc = -EFAULT; obd_ioctl_freedata(buf, len); break; -- 2.1.0 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel