linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] EDAC: Remove unnecessary cast to char* in edac_align

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Message-ID: <20220113100622.12783-3-farbere@amazon.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:06:20 +0000
From:   Eliav Farber <farbere@...zon.com>
To:     <bp@...en8.de>
CC:     <mchehab@...nel.org>, <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <ronenk@...zon.com>,
        <talel@...zon.com>, <hhhawa@...zon.com>, <jonnyc@...zon.com>,
        <hanochu@...zon.com>, <farbere@...zon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] EDAC: Remove unnecessary cast to char* in edac_align_ptr() function

Amend commit 7391c6dcab30 ("drivers/edac: mod edac_align_ptr function")
and change all return path to use void* instead of char* according
to the new signature.

Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere@...zon.com>
---
 drivers/edac/edac_mc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
index 61d72bd96754..8b9b86a7720a 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
@@ -263,12 +263,12 @@ void *edac_align_ptr(void **p, unsigned size, int n_elems)
 	else if (size > sizeof(char))
 		align = sizeof(short);
 	else
-		return (char *)ptr;
+		return ptr;
 
 	r = (unsigned long)ptr % align;
 
 	if (r == 0)
-		return (char *)ptr;
+		return ptr;
 
 	*p += align - r;
 
-- 
2.32.0