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Subject: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Removed an unnecessary cast from void *
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In C, we don't need such a cast.

Fixes: ae20b254306a ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: enable VMBus protocol version 5.0=
")
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
---

Thanks Stephen Hemminger for pointing this out!

So far, ae20b254306a ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: enable VMBus protocol version 5.=
0") only
appears in the char-misc tree's char-misc-testing and char-misc-next branch=
es. If=20
possible, please merge both patches into one.

 drivers/hv/connection.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/connection.c b/drivers/hv/connection.c
index 19e0468..ced0418 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/connection.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/connection.c
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen, bool ca=
n_sleep)
 			 * HV_STATUS_INVALID_CONNECTION_ID and we should
 			 * return an error immediately without retrying.
 			 */
-			hdr =3D (struct vmbus_channel_message_header *)buffer;
+			hdr =3D buffer;
 			if (hdr->msgtype =3D=3D CHANNELMSG_INITIATE_CONTACT)
 				return -EINVAL;
 			/*
--=20
2.7.4