[PATCH] drivers: block: Remove unnecessary cast

From	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <silvagustavosilva@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] drivers: block: Remove unnecessary cast
Date	2017-01-11 19:50 +0100
Message-ID	<sYw89-1XP-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:

@@
expression * e;
expression arg1, arg2;
type T;
@@

- e = (T *)
+ e =
kmalloc(arg1, arg2);

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
---
 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 a18de9d..98ba8fc 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
@@ -647,8 +647,7 @@ 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;
-- 
2.5.0

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

[PATCH] drivers: block: Remove unnecessary cast "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <silvagustavosilva@gmail.com> - 2017-01-11 19:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] drivers: block: Remove unnecessary cast Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-01-11 21:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] drivers: block: Remove unnecessary cast "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com> - 2017-01-12 01:10 +0100

csiph-web