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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1910151328500.2818@hadrien>
Date:   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:29:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@...il.com>
cc:     outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: remove casts to
 pointers in kfree



On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Wambui Karuga wrote:

> Remove unnecessary casts in pointer types passed to kfree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@...il.com>

Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>

> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
> index 3030ae5b6b6d..71fcb466019a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
> @@ -2155,7 +2155,7 @@ sint rtw_set_auth(struct adapter *adapter, struct security_priv *psecuritypriv)
>
>  	psetauthparm = rtw_zmalloc(sizeof(struct setauth_parm));
>  	if (!psetauthparm) {
> -		kfree((unsigned char *)pcmd);
> +		kfree(pcmd);
>  		res = _FAIL;
>  		goto exit;
>  	}
> @@ -2238,7 +2238,7 @@ sint rtw_set_key(struct adapter *adapter, struct security_priv *psecuritypriv, s
>  	if (enqueue) {
>  		pcmd = rtw_zmalloc(sizeof(struct cmd_obj));
>  		if (!pcmd) {
> -			kfree((unsigned char *)psetkeyparm);
> +			kfree(psetkeyparm);
>  			res = _FAIL;  /* try again */
>  			goto exit;
>  		}
> --
> 2.23.0
>
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