From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Meyer Subject: [PATCH] ks8*/ksz8*: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100 Message-ID: <1321569820.1624.248.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c 2011-11-07 19:37:59.170122280 +0100 +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c 2011-11-08 09:00:03.544702580 +0100 @@ -1500,8 +1500,7 @@ static int ks_hw_init(struct ks_net *ks) ks->all_mcast = 0; ks->mcast_lst_size = 0; - ks->frame_head_info = (struct type_frame_head *) \ - kmalloc(MHEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + ks->frame_head_info = kmalloc(MHEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (!ks->frame_head_info) { pr_err("Error: Fail to allocate frame memory\n"); return false;