linux-kernel - [PATCH] isdn: Remove unnecessary cast in kfree

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:06:01 +0530
From:	Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>
To:	isdn@...ux-pingi.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: [PATCH] isdn: Remove unnecessary cast in kfree

Remove unnecassary casts 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/isdn/hisax/fsm.c | 2 +-
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/fsm.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hisax/fsm.c b/drivers/isdn/hisax/fsm.c
index c7a9471..497f815 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/hisax/fsm.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/hisax/fsm.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ FsmNew(struct Fsm *fsm, struct FsmNode *fnlist, int fncount)
 void
 FsmFree(struct Fsm *fsm)
 {
-	kfree((void *) fsm->jumpmatrix);
+	kfree(fsm->jumpmatrix);
 }
 
 int
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/fsm.c b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/fsm.c
index 26477d4..5ac2dac 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/fsm.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/fsm.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mISDN_FsmNew);
 void
 mISDN_FsmFree(struct Fsm *fsm)
 {
-	kfree((void *) fsm->jumpmatrix);
+	kfree(fsm->jumpmatrix);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mISDN_FsmFree);
 
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