From: Shraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 06:38:45 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: Staging: lustre: mdc: Remove useless cast on void pointer
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~802^2~2148
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3cf8e32d6d337e0c293cd1b192a970639291703e;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

Staging: lustre: mdc: Remove useless cast on void pointer

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>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c
index bcb6c00c49ff..e6b3bf932a84 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c
@@ -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) {