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[PATCH] cciss: remove unneeded void pointer cast

From Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] cciss: remove unneeded void pointer cast
Date 2016-10-13 18:20 +0200
Message-ID <srQTE-5MC-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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It's not necessary to cast the result of kmalloc, since void pointers are
promoted to any other type. This also fixes following coccinelle warning:

casting value returned by memory allocation function to (struct cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t *) is useless.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.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 1537302e56e3..06692f164f40 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;
-- 
2.7.4

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