netfilter: Remove unnecessary cast on void pointer

The following Coccinelle script was used to detect this:
@r@
expression x;
void* e;
type T;
identifier f;
@@
(
  *((T *)e)
|
  ((T *)x)[...]
|
  ((T*)x)->f
|

- (T*)
  e
)

Unnecessary parantheses are also remove.

Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
index 1e15c54fd5e2..d862e3471935 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ mark_source_chains(const struct xt_table_info *newinfo,
 	   to 0 as we leave), and comefrom to save source hook bitmask */
 	for (hook = 0; hook < NF_INET_NUMHOOKS; hook++) {
 		unsigned int pos = newinfo->hook_entry[hook];
-		struct ip6t_entry *e = (struct ip6t_entry *)(entry0 + pos);
+		struct ip6t_entry *e = entry0 + pos;
 
 		if (!(valid_hooks & (1 << hook)))
 			continue;
@@ -453,14 +453,12 @@ mark_source_chains(const struct xt_table_info *newinfo,
 					if (pos == oldpos)
 						goto next;
 
-					e = (struct ip6t_entry *)
-						(entry0 + pos);
+					e = entry0 + pos;
 				} while (oldpos == pos + e->next_offset);
 
 				/* Move along one */
 				size = e->next_offset;
-				e = (struct ip6t_entry *)
-					(entry0 + pos + size);
+				e = entry0 + pos + size;
 				if (pos + size >= newinfo->size)
 					return 0;
 				e->counters.pcnt = pos;
@@ -475,16 +473,14 @@ mark_source_chains(const struct xt_table_info *newinfo,
 					if (!xt_find_jump_offset(offsets, newpos,
 								 newinfo->number))
 						return 0;
-					e = (struct ip6t_entry *)
-						(entry0 + newpos);
+					e = entry0 + newpos;
 				} else {
 					/* ... this is a fallthru */
 					newpos = pos + e->next_offset;
 					if (newpos >= newinfo->size)
 						return 0;
 				}
-				e = (struct ip6t_entry *)
-					(entry0 + newpos);
+				e = entry0 + newpos;
 				e->counters.pcnt = pos;
 				pos = newpos;
 			}
@@ -863,7 +859,7 @@ copy_entries_to_user(unsigned int total_size,
 		const struct xt_entry_match *m;
 		const struct xt_entry_target *t;
 
-		e = (struct ip6t_entry *)(loc_cpu_entry + off);
+		e = loc_cpu_entry + off;
 		if (copy_to_user(userptr + off, e, sizeof(*e))) {
 			ret = -EFAULT;
 			goto free_counters;
@@ -1258,7 +1254,7 @@ compat_copy_entry_to_user(struct ip6t_entry *e, void __user **dstptr,
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	origsize = *size;
-	ce = (struct compat_ip6t_entry __user *)*dstptr;
+	ce = *dstptr;
 	if (copy_to_user(ce, e, sizeof(struct ip6t_entry)) != 0 ||
 	    copy_to_user(&ce->counters, &counters[i],
 	    sizeof(counters[i])) != 0)
@@ -1394,7 +1390,7 @@ compat_copy_entry_from_user(struct compat_ip6t_entry *e, void **dstptr,
 	struct xt_entry_match *ematch;
 
 	origsize = *size;
-	de = (struct ip6t_entry *)*dstptr;
+	de = *dstptr;
 	memcpy(de, e, sizeof(struct ip6t_entry));
 	memcpy(&de->counters, &e->counters, sizeof(e->counters));