From: James Simmons <uja.ornl@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 17:38:13 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: LU-7623 lnet: remove useless cast
X-Git-Tag: 2.8.56~106
X-Git-Url: https://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs%2Flustre-release.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba162203853721dd2ad16bcc2212b11461974264

LU-7623 lnet: remove useless cast

In the cleanup of the user land / kernel pointers a
small cleanup was missed which removed a cast no
longer needed for a call of lnet_ping(). This brings
us into sync with the upstream client.

Change-Id: Ib281aaac7f2a1516d8586fbf3d10dee18cd77873
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <uja.ornl@yahoo.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/18950
Tested-by: Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Frank Zago <fzago@cray.com>
Reviewed-by: Christopher J. Morrone <morrone2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: John L. Hammond <john.hammond@intel.com>
Tested-by: Maloo <hpdd-maloo@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/libcfs/include/libcfs/libcfs_ioctl.h b/libcfs/include/libcfs/libcfs_ioctl.h
index f403e9b..990eda5 100644
--- a/libcfs/include/libcfs/libcfs_ioctl.h
+++ b/libcfs/include/libcfs/libcfs_ioctl.h
@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ struct libcfs_ioctl_data {
 	char *ioc_inlbuf2;
 
 	__u32 ioc_plen1; /* buffers in userspace */
-	char __user *ioc_pbuf1;
+	void __user *ioc_pbuf1;
 	__u32 ioc_plen2; /* buffers in userspace */
-	char __user *ioc_pbuf2;
+	void __user *ioc_pbuf2;
 
 	char ioc_bulk[0];
 };
diff --git a/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c b/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c
index 99f5267..b7f297f 100644
--- a/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c
+++ b/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c
@@ -2128,7 +2128,7 @@ LNetCtl(unsigned int cmd, void *arg)
 		id.nid = data->ioc_nid;
 		id.pid = data->ioc_u32[0];
 		rc = lnet_ping(id, data->ioc_u32[1], /* timeout */
-			       (lnet_process_id_t __user *)data->ioc_pbuf1,
+			       data->ioc_pbuf1,
 			       data->ioc_plen1/sizeof(lnet_process_id_t));
 		if (rc < 0)
 			return rc;