Author: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com> This patch does away with the cast on void * as it is unnecessary. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used for making the change: @r@ expression x; void* e; type T; identifier f; @@ ( *((T *)e) | ((T *)x)[…] | ((T *)x)->f | – (T *) e ) Signed-off-by: …