From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: mchehab@infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [media] v4l: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321569820.1624.247.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
---
diff -u -p a/drivers/media/video/vino.c b/drivers/media/video/vino.c
--- a/drivers/media/video/vino.c 2011-11-07 19:37:51.673341747 +0100
+++ b/drivers/media/video/vino.c 2011-11-08 09:05:04.618617718 +0100
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static int vino_allocate_buffer(struct v
size, count);
/* allocate memory for table with virtual (page) addresses */
- fb->desc_table.virtual = (unsigned long *)
+ fb->desc_table.virtual =
kmalloc(count * sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fb->desc_table.virtual)
return -ENOMEM;
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