linux-kernel - Re: Are the cast necessary in function "kfree"?

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Date:	Wed, 20 May 2009 20:16:51 +0900
From:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
To:	Andr? Lopes <andre.neo.net@...il.com>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Are the cast necessary in function "kfree"?

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:30:21AM +0100, Andr? Lopes wrote:
> Hi. This is my first post :-)
> 
> I was reading this doc (/linux-2.6/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc),
> when I found this phrase: "Replace some kfree((void*)ptr) with
> kfree(ptr)."
> 
[snip]

> These casts are not necessary...I think so. If it's yes, can we apply
> patch's to clean-up this?
> 
The key thing here is "ptr", as long as these are pointers, then the cast
is superfluous. In the case of casting from a non-pointer type, the cast
is necessary, particularly if the data type and pointer size vary.
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