Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | [PATCH 01/50] KVM: remove long -> void *user -> long cast | Date | Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:27:43 +0300 |
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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
kvm_dev_ioctl casts the arg value to void __user *, just to recast it again to long. This seems unnecessary.
According to objdump the binary code on x86 is unchanged by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index 2d29e26..764d702 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -1179,7 +1179,6 @@ static int kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm(void) static long kvm_dev_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg) { - void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg; long r = -EINVAL; switch (ioctl) { @@ -1196,7 +1195,7 @@ static long kvm_dev_ioctl(struct file *filp, r = kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm(); break; case KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION: - r = kvm_dev_ioctl_check_extension((long)argp); + r = kvm_dev_ioctl_check_extension(arg); break; case KVM_GET_VCPU_MMAP_SIZE: r = -EINVAL; -- 1.5.6
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