linux-kernel - [PATCH] tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:45:21 +0100 (CET)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Adrian `trivial' Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast

tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast (expected and passed
types are both const char *)

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>

--- ps3-linux-2.6.20.orig/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ ps3-linux-2.6.20/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -3713,15 +3713,14 @@ int tty_register_driver(struct tty_drive
 
 	if (!driver->major) {
 		error = alloc_chrdev_region(&dev, driver->minor_start, driver->num,
-						(char*)driver->name);
+						driver->name);
 		if (!error) {
 			driver->major = MAJOR(dev);
 			driver->minor_start = MINOR(dev);
 		}
 	} else {
 		dev = MKDEV(driver->major, driver->minor_start);
-		error = register_chrdev_region(dev, driver->num,
-						(char*)driver->name);
+		error = register_chrdev_region(dev, driver->num, driver->name);
 	}
 	if (error < 0) {
 		kfree(p);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Sony Network and Software Technology Center Europe (NSCE)
Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com ------- The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1
Voice +32-2-7008453 Fax +32-2-7008622 ---------------- B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/