[PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Removed an unnecessary cast from void *

From: Dexuan Cui
Date: Mon May 14 2018 - 20:25:44 EST



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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

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 branches. If
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 can_sleep)
* HV_STATUS_INVALID_CONNECTION_ID and we should
* return an error immediately without retrying.
*/
- hdr = (struct vmbus_channel_message_header *)buffer;
+ hdr = buffer;
if (hdr->msgtype == CHANNELMSG_INITIATE_CONTACT)
return -EINVAL;
/*
--
2.7.4