Remove the cast done by ERR_PTR() and PTR_ERR() since data is of type char * and fss_prepare_buffer() should returns a value of this type. Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c index 9c0c393abb39..e411555e4c34 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c @@ -3831,7 +3831,7 @@ static char *ffs_prepare_buffer(const char __user *buf, size_t len) data = memdup_user(buf, len); if (IS_ERR(data)) - return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(data)); + return data; pr_vdebug("Buffer from user space:\n"); ffs_dump_mem("", data, len); -- 2.25.1