The patch titled Subject: init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is init-remove-unnecessary-void-conversions.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/init-remove-unnecessary-void-conversions.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Zhou jie <zhoujie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:45:39 +0800 The void pointer object can be directly assigned to different structure objects, it does not need to be cast. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220928014539.11046-1-zhoujie@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Zhou jie <zhoujie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/init/main.c~init-remove-unnecessary-void-conversions +++ a/init/main.c @@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ __setup("initcall_blacklist=", initcall_ static __init_or_module void trace_initcall_start_cb(void *data, initcall_t fn) { - ktime_t *calltime = (ktime_t *)data; + ktime_t *calltime = data; printk(KERN_DEBUG "calling %pS @ %i\n", fn, task_pid_nr(current)); *calltime = ktime_get(); @@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ trace_initcall_start_cb(void *data, init static __init_or_module void trace_initcall_finish_cb(void *data, initcall_t fn, int ret) { - ktime_t rettime, *calltime = (ktime_t *)data; + ktime_t rettime, *calltime = data; rettime = ktime_get(); printk(KERN_DEBUG "initcall %pS returned %d after %lld usecs\n", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhoujie@xxxxxxxxxxxx are init-remove-unnecessary-void-conversions.patch