linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: hyper-v: housekeeping: Remove unnecessary type cast

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Date:   Thu, 3 Jun 2021 15:27:12 +0200
From:   Siddharth Chandrasekaran <sidcha@...zon.de>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        <x86@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:     Siddharth Chandrasekaran <sidcha@...zon.de>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: hyper-v: housekeeping: Remove unnecessary type cast

Remove unnecessary type cast of 'u8 instructions[]' to
'unsigned char *'.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Chandrasekaran <sidcha@...zon.de>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c b/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c
index f00830e5202f..7d9eb13174b6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c
@@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@ static int kvm_hv_set_msr_pw(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data,
 		i += 3;
 
 		/* ret */
-		((unsigned char *)instructions)[i++] = 0xc3;
+		instructions[i++] = 0xc3;
 
 		addr = data & HV_X64_MSR_HYPERCALL_PAGE_ADDRESS_MASK;
 		if (kvm_vcpu_write_guest(vcpu, addr, instructions, i))
-- 
2.17.1




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