This kthread is not loop at all due to break at the end of the loop. Make that function linear, with no while loop. And remove an unnecessary cast. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Anil Gurumurthy <anil.gurumurthy@qlogic.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>