[PATCH] Staging : lustre :Drop unnecessary cast

[PATCH] Staging : lustre :Drop unnecessary cast

[Shraddha Barke]

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
|
- (T *)
  e
)

Signed-off-by: Shraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c
index 6218ef3..fef6a4e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ int obd_ioctl_getdata(char **buf, int *len, void *arg)
 	int err;
 	int offset = 0;
 
-	if (copy_from_user(&hdr, (void *)arg, sizeof(hdr)))
+	if (copy_from_user(&hdr, arg, sizeof(hdr)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	if (hdr.ioc_version != OBD_IOCTL_VERSION) {
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ int obd_ioctl_getdata(char **buf, int *len, void *arg)
 	*len = hdr.ioc_len;
 	data = (struct obd_ioctl_data *)*buf;
 
-	if (copy_from_user(*buf, (void *)arg, hdr.ioc_len)) {
+	if (copy_from_user(*buf, arg, hdr.ioc_len)) {
 		err = -EFAULT;
 		goto free_buf;
 	}
-- 
2.1.0

[PATCH] Staging: lustre: Drop unnecessary cast

[Shraddha Barke]

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
|
- (T *)
  e
)

Signed-off-by: Shraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/linux/linux-crypto.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/linux/linux-crypto.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/linux/linux-crypto.c
index aa3fffe..fbbc8a7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/linux/linux-crypto.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/linux/linux-crypto.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ int cfs_crypto_hash_digest(unsigned char alg_id,
 		crypto_free_hash(hdesc.tfm);
 		return -ENOSPC;
 	}
-	sg_init_one(&sl, (void *)buf, buf_len);
+	sg_init_one(&sl, buf, buf_len);
 
 	hdesc.flags = 0;
 	err = crypto_hash_digest(&hdesc, &sl, sl.length, hash);
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ int cfs_crypto_hash_update(struct cfs_crypto_hash_desc *hdesc,
 {
 	struct scatterlist sl;
 
-	sg_init_one(&sl, (void *)buf, buf_len);
+	sg_init_one(&sl, buf, buf_len);
 
 	return crypto_hash_update((struct hash_desc *)hdesc, &sl, sl.length);
 }
-- 
2.1.0