From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Punit Vara Subject: [PATCH] block: remove useless casting value returned by kmalloc to structure Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 17:39:49 +0530 Message-ID: <1445688589-5856-1-git-send-email-punitvara@gmail.com> Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com ([209.85.212.179]:34619 "EHLO mail-wi0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751543AbbJXMKH (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Oct 2015 08:10:07 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: don.brace@pmcs.com Cc: iss_storagedev@hp.com, storagedev@pmcs.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Punit Vara This is the patch to the cciss_scsi.c file that resolves following warning reported by coccicheck: WARNING: casting value returned by memory allocation function to (struct cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t *) is useless. Signed-off-by: Punit Vara --- drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c index 1537302..4c27032 100644 --- a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c +++ b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c @@ -703,8 +703,7 @@ cciss_scsi_setup(ctlr_info_t *h) struct cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t * shba; ccissscsi[h->ctlr].ndevices = 0; - shba = (struct cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t *) - kmalloc(sizeof(*shba), GFP_KERNEL); + shba = kmalloc(sizeof(*shba), GFP_KERNEL); if (shba == NULL) return; shba->scsi_host = NULL; -- 2.5.3