From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from www17.your-server.de ([213.133.104.17]:48600 "EHLO www17.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757210Ab1KRJ2k (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:28:40 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [media] v4l: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless From: Thomas Meyer To: mchehab@infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100 Message-ID: <1321569820.1624.247.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer --- 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;