Staging: lustre: mdc: Remove useless cast on void pointer
authorShraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@gmail.com>
Fri, 4 Sep 2015 06:38:45 +0000 (12:08 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 01:24:48 +0000 (18:24 -0700)
void pointers do not need to be cast to other pointer types.

The semantic patch used to find this:

@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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c

index bcb6c00c49ff68d5f63122a5830ea27a58e2052f..e6b3bf932a84c58ae688456dbdc696f930333f94 100644 (file)
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ resend:
                LASSERT(lmm && lmmsize == 0);
                LASSERTF(einfo->ei_type == LDLM_FLOCK, "lock type %d\n",
                         einfo->ei_type);
-               policy = (ldlm_policy_data_t *)lmm;
+               policy = lmm;
                res_id.name[3] = LDLM_FLOCK;
                req = NULL;
        } else if (it->it_op & IT_OPEN) {