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 | - (void *) e ) Signed-off-by: Shraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/module.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/module.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/module.c index 1ab4232..ef8f126 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/module.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/module.c @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static int libcfs_ioctl(struct cfs_psdev_file *pfile, unsigned long cmd, void *a return -ENOMEM; /* 'cmd' and permissions get checked in our arch-specific caller */ - if (libcfs_ioctl_getdata(buf, buf + 800, (void *)arg)) { + if (libcfs_ioctl_getdata(buf, buf + 800, arg)) { CERROR("PORTALS ioctl: data error\n"); err = -EINVAL; goto out; -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html