[PATCH] no need to cast pointer to (void *) when passing it to kfree()

kfree() takes a void pointer argument, no need to cast.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>

--- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4-orig/mm/nommu.c	2005-03-31 21:20:08.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/mm/nommu.c	2005-04-04 23:25:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ static void put_vma(struct vm_area_struc
 			if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_SHARED)) && vma->vm_start) {
 				realalloc -= kobjsize((void *) vma->vm_start);
 				askedalloc -= vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
-				kfree((void *) vma->vm_start);
+				kfree(vma->vm_start);
 			}
 
 			realalloc -= kobjsize(vma);


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