linux-kernel - [PATCH] gpu: drm: amd: amdkfd: Remove unnecessary cast in kfree

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:03:57 +0530
From:	Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>
To:	oded.gabbay@...il.com, airlied@...ux.ie,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: [PATCH] gpu: drm: amd: amdkfd: Remove unnecessary cast in kfree

Remove an unnecassary cast in the argument to kfree.

Found using Coccinelle. The semantic patch used to find this is as follows:

//<smpl>
@@
type T;
expression *f;
@@

- kfree((T *)(f));
+ kfree(f);
//</smpl>

Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
index 9be0070..a902ae0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static void kfd_process_wq_release(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	kfree(p);
 
-	kfree((void *)work);
+	kfree(work);
 }
 
 static void kfd_process_destroy_delayed(struct rcu_head *rcu)
-- 
1.9.1