Re: [PATCH 2/4] EDAC: Remove unnecessary cast to char* in edac_align_ptr() function

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 10:06:20AM +0000, Eliav Farber wrote:
> Amend commit 7391c6dcab30 ("drivers/edac: mod edac_align_ptr function")
> and change all return path to use void* instead of char* according
> to the new signature.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/edac/edac_mc.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
> index 61d72bd96754..8b9b86a7720a 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
> @@ -263,12 +263,12 @@ void *edac_align_ptr(void **p, unsigned size, int n_elems)
>  	else if (size > sizeof(char))
>  		align = sizeof(short);
>  	else
> -		return (char *)ptr;
> +		return ptr;
>  
>  	r = (unsigned long)ptr % align;
>  
>  	if (r == 0)
> -		return (char *)ptr;
> +		return ptr;
>  
>  	*p += align - r;
>  
> -- 

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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