The patch titled
drivers/block/floppy.c: remove some unnecessary casting
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drivers-block-floppyc-remove-some-unnecessary-casting.patch
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Subject: drivers/block/floppy.c: remove some unnecessary casting
From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Remove char/void __user * use.
Remove kmalloc cast.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/floppy.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/block/floppy.c~drivers-block-floppyc-remove-some-unnecessary-casting drivers/block/floppy.c
--- a/drivers/block/floppy.c~drivers-block-floppyc-remove-some-unnecessary-casting
+++ a/drivers/block/floppy.c
@@ -3104,13 +3104,13 @@ static struct cont_t raw_cmd_cont = {
.done = raw_cmd_done
};
-static inline int raw_cmd_copyout(int cmd, char __user *param,
+static inline int raw_cmd_copyout(int cmd, void __user *param,
struct floppy_raw_cmd *ptr)
{
int ret;
while (ptr) {
- ret = copy_to_user((void __user *)param, ptr, sizeof(*ptr));
+ ret = copy_to_user(param, ptr, sizeof(*ptr));
if (ret)
return -EFAULT;
param += sizeof(struct floppy_raw_cmd);
@@ -3148,7 +3148,7 @@ static void raw_cmd_free(struct floppy_r
}
}
-static inline int raw_cmd_copyin(int cmd, char __user *param,
+static inline int raw_cmd_copyin(int cmd, void __user *param,
struct floppy_raw_cmd **rcmd)
{
struct floppy_raw_cmd *ptr;
@@ -3157,12 +3157,11 @@ static inline int raw_cmd_copyin(int cmd
*rcmd = NULL;
while (1) {
- ptr = (struct floppy_raw_cmd *)
- kmalloc(sizeof(struct floppy_raw_cmd), GFP_USER);
+ ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct floppy_raw_cmd), GFP_USER);
if (!ptr)
return -ENOMEM;
*rcmd = ptr;
- ret = copy_from_user(ptr, (void __user *)param, sizeof(*ptr));
+ ret = copy_from_user(ptr, param, sizeof(*ptr));
if (ret)
return -EFAULT;
ptr->next = NULL;
_
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