[PATCH] x86, mrst: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc isuseless

From: Thomas Meyer
Date: Fri Nov 18 2011 - 04:30:50 EST


The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
---

diff -u -p a/arch/x86/platform/mrst/mrst.c b/arch/x86/platform/mrst/mrst.c
--- a/arch/x86/platform/mrst/mrst.c 2011-11-07 19:37:40.283168752 +0100
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/mrst/mrst.c 2011-11-08 09:19:24.686513740 +0100
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static int __init sfi_parse_gpio(struct
num = SFI_GET_NUM_ENTRIES(sb, struct sfi_gpio_table_entry);
pentry = (struct sfi_gpio_table_entry *)sb->pentry;

- gpio_table = (struct sfi_gpio_table_entry *)
+ gpio_table =
kmalloc(num * sizeof(*pentry), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!gpio_table)
return -1;
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