qed: remove cast to pointers passed to kfree

johnmeneghini · johnmeneghini · commit f67ea9d650e9 · 2025-05-30T09:29:56.000-04:00
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-72644 Remove unnecessary casts to pointer types passed to kfree. Issue detected by coccinelle: @@ type t1; expression *e; @@ -kfree((t1 *)e); +kfree(e); Signed-off-by: Chen Ni <nichen@iscas.ac.cn> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250311070624.1037787-1-nichen@iscas.ac.cn Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit f5825e7) Signed-off-by: John Meneghini <jmeneghi@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ int qed_fill_dev_info(struct qed_dev *cdev,
 
 static void qed_free_cdev(struct qed_dev *cdev)
 {
-	kfree((void *)cdev);
+	kfree(cdev);
 }
 
 static struct qed_dev *qed_alloc_cdev(struct pci_dev *pdev)

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ int qed_fill_dev_info(struct qed_dev *cdev,`
`454`	`454`
`455`	`455`	`static void qed_free_cdev(struct qed_dev *cdev)`
`456`	`456`	`{`
`457`		`- kfree((void *)cdev);`
	`457`	`+ kfree(cdev);`
`458`	`458`	`}`
`459`	`459`
`460`	`460`	`static struct qed_dev qed_alloc_cdev(struct pci_dev pdev)`