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 <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
index 9167413..79d8383 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ static int wpa_set_encryption(struct net_device *dev, struct ieee_param *param,
exit:
- kfree((u8 *)pwep);
+ kfree(pwep);
return ret;
}
@@ -2500,7 +2500,7 @@ static int rtw_wx_set_enc_ext(struct net_device *dev,
ret = wpa_set_encryption(dev, param, param_len);
exit:
- kfree((u8 *)param);
+ kfree(param);
return ret;
}
@@ -3767,7 +3767,7 @@ static int wpa_supplicant_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_point *p)
if (copy_from_user(param, p->pointer, p->length))
{
- kfree((u8 *)param);
+ kfree(param);
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
@@ -3801,7 +3801,7 @@ static int wpa_supplicant_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_point *p)
if (ret == 0 && copy_to_user(p->pointer, param, p->length))
ret = -EFAULT;
- kfree((u8 *)param);
+ kfree(param);
out:
@@ -4130,7 +4130,7 @@ static int rtw_set_encryption(struct net_device *dev, struct ieee_param *param,
}
exit:
- kfree((u8 *)pwep);
+ kfree(pwep);
return ret;
@@ -4713,7 +4713,7 @@ static int rtw_hostapd_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_point *p)
if (copy_from_user(param, p->pointer, p->length))
{
- kfree((u8 *)param);
+ kfree(param);
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
@@ -4817,7 +4817,7 @@ static int rtw_hostapd_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_point *p)
ret = -EFAULT;
- kfree((u8 *)param);
+ kfree(param);
out:
--
2.7.4