Re: [PATCH net-next] qed: remove cast to pointers passed to kfree

[Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel.com>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 06:08:24PM +0100, Michal Kubiak wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 03:06:24PM +0800, Chen Ni wrote:
> > 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>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c
> > index f915c423fe70..886061d7351a 100644
> > --- 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)
> > -- 
> > 2.25.1
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> LGTM.
> 
> Thanks,
> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel.com>
> 

I'm sorry I missed that the patch is addressed to "net-next".
It rather looks like as a candidate for the "net" tree.

Please resend it to the "net" tree with an appropriate "Fixes" tag.

My apologies for the noise.

Thanks,
Michal