Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: lustre: lustre: Remove unnecessary cast on void pointer

From: SIMRAN SINGHAL
Date: Thu Mar 02 2017 - 17:02:31 EST


On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 02:49 +0530, simran singhal wrote:
>> The following Coccinelle script was used to detect this:
>> @r@
>> expression x;
>> void* e;
>> type T;
>> identifier f;
>> @@
>> (
>> *((T *)e)
>> >
>>
>> ((T *)x)[...]
>> >
>>
>> ((T*)x)->f
>> >
>>
>> - (T*)
>> e
>> )
>
> NAK.
>
> Nice, but you still have to verify correctness
> before submitting these patches.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c
> []
>> @@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ static int mgc_set_info_async(const struct lu_env *env, struct obd_export *exp,
>> rc = sptlrpc_parse_flavor(val, &flvr);
>> if (rc) {
>> CERROR("invalid sptlrpc flavor %s to MGS\n",
>> - (char *)val);
>> + val);
>
> Try compiling this.
>

I compiled it before sending.