[PATCH v8 04/14] net/pcap: remove unnecessary casts

Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-27T17:22:03Z

The function rte_zmalloc returns void * so cast is unnecessary.

Correct the indentation in that code. Not really worth backporting.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c | 11 ++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
index d09ba5abe9..0177cbc7df 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
@@ -1221,9 +1221,8 @@ pmd_init_internals(struct rte_vdev_device *vdev,
PMD_LOG(INFO, "Creating pcap-backed ethdev on numa socket %d",
numa_node);

- pp = (struct pmd_process_private *)
- rte_zmalloc(NULL, sizeof(struct pmd_process_private),
- RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+ pp = rte_zmalloc(NULL, sizeof(struct pmd_process_private),
+ RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);

if (pp == NULL) {
PMD_LOG(ERR,
@@ -1591,10 +1590,8 @@ pmd_pcap_probe(struct rte_vdev_device *dev)
unsigned int i;

internal = eth_dev->data->dev_private;
- pp = (struct pmd_process_private *)
- rte_zmalloc(NULL,
- sizeof(struct pmd_process_private),
- RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+ pp = rte_zmalloc(NULL, sizeof(struct pmd_process_private),
+ RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);

if (pp == NULL) {
PMD_LOG(ERR,
--
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