SLUB: Deal with annoying gcc warning on kfree()
gcc 4.2 spits out an annoying warning if one casts a const void *
pointer to a void * pointer. No warning is generated if the
conversion is done through an assignment.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 3f05667..2dacaf5 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2601,6 +2601,7 @@
void kfree(const void *x)
{
struct page *page;
+ void *object = (void *)x;
if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x)))
return;
@@ -2610,7 +2611,7 @@
put_page(page);
return;
}
- slab_free(page->slab, page, (void *)x, __builtin_return_address(0));
+ slab_free(page->slab, page, object, __builtin_return_address(0));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);