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From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Staging: rts_pstor: dont cast void* from kmalloc()
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:28:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313227730.16820.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

 Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless
 as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14.

 The semantic patch that makes this output 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 <thomas@m3y3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/spi.c b/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/spi.c
--- a/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/spi.c 2011-05-27 19:17:05.999541117 +0200
+++ b/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/spi.c 2011-08-01 19:57:11.534038755 +0200
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ int spi_read_flash_id(struct scsi_cmnd *
 	}
 
 	if (len) {
-		buf = (u8 *)kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+		buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!buf)
 			TRACE_RET(chip, STATUS_ERROR);
 



             reply	other threads:[~2011-08-13 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-13  9:28 Thomas Meyer [this message]
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2011-08-13 14:14 [PATCH] staging: rts_pstor: dont cast void* from kmalloc() Thomas Meyer
2011-08-13  9:27 Thomas Meyer

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