From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Meyer Subject: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: e500: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:15:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1320779766.8062.143.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Avi Kivity , Alexander Graf , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org From: Thomas Meyer Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14. The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer --- diff -u -p a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c 2011-11-07 19:37:27.329638682 +0100 +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c 2011-11-08 09:18:39.955928218 +0100 @@ -1026,11 +1026,11 @@ int kvmppc_e500_tlb_init(struct kvmppc_v if (vcpu_e500->gtlb_arch[1] == NULL) goto err_out_guest0; - vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = (struct tlbe_priv *) + vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct tlbe_priv) * KVM_E500_TLB0_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] == NULL) goto err_out_guest1; - vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = (struct tlbe_priv *) + vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct tlbe_priv) * KVM_E500_TLB1_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] == NULL)