From: Thomas Meyer Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:34:09 +0000 (+0200) Subject: staging: altera-stapl: dont cast void* from kmalloc() X-Git-Tag: v3.2-rc1~169^2^2~864^2~156 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c82b13a2c2b22fc395f39b6aba301e7fbe09440;p=linux.git staging: altera-stapl: dont cast void* from kmalloc() Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14. The semantic patch that makes this output is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/altera-stapl/altera.c b/drivers/staging/altera-stapl/altera.c index 8d73a8642736..be777a4945ca 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/altera-stapl/altera.c +++ b/drivers/staging/altera-stapl/altera.c @@ -2384,7 +2384,7 @@ static int altera_get_act_info(u8 *p, act_proc_attribute = (p[proc_table + (13 * act_proc_id) + 8] & 0x03); - procptr = (struct altera_procinfo *) + procptr = kzalloc(sizeof(struct altera_procinfo), GFP_KERNEL);