Casting value returned by k[cmz]alloc to (struct page * *) is useless. Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> --- drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-next.orig/drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c 2012-10-27 11:23:51.885567926 +0800 +++ linux-next/drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c 2012-10-27 11:25:39.049570466 +0800 @@ -697,8 +697,7 @@ static int SetArea(DEVICE_EXTENSION * pd return -EFAULT; // ...then we are done // Now allocate space to hold the page pointer and virtual address pointer tables - pPages = - (struct page **)kmalloc(len * sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL); + pPages = kmalloc(len * sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pPages) { iReturn = U14ERR_NOMEMORY; goto error; _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
