Hello,

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 03:53:34PM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> Avoid pointer casting which may also lead to problems on big endian
> 64 bit systems.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/acpi_thermal_rel.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/acpi_thermal_rel.c b/drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/acpi_thermal_rel.c
> index 0d8db80..ac5c405 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/acpi_thermal_rel.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/acpi_thermal_rel.c
> @@ -317,21 +317,21 @@ static long acpi_thermal_rel_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int cmd,
>  {
>  	int ret = 0;
>  	unsigned long length = 0;
> -	unsigned long count = 0;
> +	int count = 0;
>  	char __user *arg = (void __user *)__arg;
>  	struct trt *trts;
>  	struct art *arts;
>  
>  	switch (cmd) {
>  	case ACPI_THERMAL_GET_TRT_COUNT:
> -		ret = acpi_parse_trt(acpi_thermal_rel_handle, (int *)&count,
> +		ret = acpi_parse_trt(acpi_thermal_rel_handle, &count,
>  				&trts, false);
>  		kfree(trts);
>  		if (!ret)
>  			return put_user(count, (unsigned long __user *)__arg);
>  		return ret;
>  	case ACPI_THERMAL_GET_TRT_LEN:
> -		ret = acpi_parse_trt(acpi_thermal_rel_handle, (int *)&count,
> +		ret = acpi_parse_trt(acpi_thermal_rel_handle, &count,
>  				&trts, false);
>  		kfree(trts);
>  		length = count * sizeof(union trt_object);
> @@ -341,14 +341,14 @@ static long acpi_thermal_rel_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int cmd,
>  	case ACPI_THERMAL_GET_TRT:
>  		return fill_trt(arg);
>  	case ACPI_THERMAL_GET_ART_COUNT:
> -		ret = acpi_parse_art(acpi_thermal_rel_handle, (int *)&count,
> +		ret = acpi_parse_art(acpi_thermal_rel_handle, &count,
>  				&arts, false);
>  		kfree(arts);
>  		if (!ret)
>  			return put_user(count, (unsigned long __user *)__arg);
>  		return ret;
>  	case ACPI_THERMAL_GET_ART_LEN:
> -		ret = acpi_parse_art(acpi_thermal_rel_handle, (int *)&count,
> +		ret = acpi_parse_art(acpi_thermal_rel_handle, &count,
>  				&arts, false);
>  		kfree(arts);
>  		length = count * sizeof(union art_object);


To me, this change is reasonable.

Rui, any comments/objections on this fix?

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