From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] drivers/net/wireless/hostap: Drop memory allocation cast
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 20:25:56 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1005112025280.4330@ask.diku.dk> (raw)
From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Drop cast on the result of kmalloc and similar functions.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
type T;
@@
- (T *)
(\(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\|
kmem_cache_alloc_node\|kmalloc_node\|kzalloc_node\)(...))
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
---
drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c | 3 +--
drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c | 3 +--
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c
index f4c5612..e0b3e8d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c
@@ -355,8 +355,7 @@ static struct hostap_bss_info *__hostap_add_bss(local_info_t *local, u8 *bssid,
list_del(&bss->list);
local->num_bss_info--;
} else {
- bss = (struct hostap_bss_info *)
- kmalloc(sizeof(*bss), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ bss = kmalloc(sizeof(*bss), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (bss == NULL)
return NULL;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c
index 9a08230..a85e43a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c
@@ -3039,8 +3039,7 @@ static int prism2_ioctl_priv_download(local_info_t *local, struct iw_point *p)
p->length > 1024 || !p->pointer)
return -EINVAL;
- param = (struct prism2_download_param *)
- kmalloc(p->length, GFP_KERNEL);
+ param = kmalloc(p->length, GFP_KERNEL);
if (param == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
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