The patch titled Subject: lib/kstrtox.c: delete unnecessary casts has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kstrtox-delete-unnecessary-casts.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kstrtox-delete-unnecessary-casts.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kstrtox-delete-unnecessary-casts.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib/kstrtox.c: delete unnecessary casts Implicit casts to the same type are done by the language if necessary. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181014223934.GA18107@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/kstrtox.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/lib/kstrtox.c~kstrtox-delete-unnecessary-casts +++ a/lib/kstrtox.c @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ int _kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned in rv = kstrtoull(s, base, &tmp); if (rv < 0) return rv; - if (tmp != (unsigned long long)(unsigned long)tmp) + if (tmp != (unsigned long)tmp) return -ERANGE; *res = tmp; return 0; @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ int _kstrtol(const char *s, unsigned int rv = kstrtoll(s, base, &tmp); if (rv < 0) return rv; - if (tmp != (long long)(long)tmp) + if (tmp != (long)tmp) return -ERANGE; *res = tmp; return 0; @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ int kstrtouint(const char *s, unsigned i rv = kstrtoull(s, base, &tmp); if (rv < 0) return rv; - if (tmp != (unsigned long long)(unsigned int)tmp) + if (tmp != (unsigned int)tmp) return -ERANGE; *res = tmp; return 0; @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ int kstrtoint(const char *s, unsigned in rv = kstrtoll(s, base, &tmp); if (rv < 0) return rv; - if (tmp != (long long)(int)tmp) + if (tmp != (int)tmp) return -ERANGE; *res = tmp; return 0; @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ int kstrtou16(const char *s, unsigned in rv = kstrtoull(s, base, &tmp); if (rv < 0) return rv; - if (tmp != (unsigned long long)(u16)tmp) + if (tmp != (u16)tmp) return -ERANGE; *res = tmp; return 0; @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ int kstrtos16(const char *s, unsigned in rv = kstrtoll(s, base, &tmp); if (rv < 0) return rv; - if (tmp != (long long)(s16)tmp) + if (tmp != (s16)tmp) return -ERANGE; *res = tmp; return 0; @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ int kstrtou8(const char *s, unsigned int rv = kstrtoull(s, base, &tmp); if (rv < 0) return rv; - if (tmp != (unsigned long long)(u8)tmp) + if (tmp != (u8)tmp) return -ERANGE; *res = tmp; return 0; @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ int kstrtos8(const char *s, unsigned int rv = kstrtoll(s, base, &tmp); if (rv < 0) return rv; - if (tmp != (long long)(s8)tmp) + if (tmp != (s8)tmp) return -ERANGE; *res = tmp; return 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are kstrtox-delete-unnecessary-casts.patch