Re: [PATCH] sound: pci: emu10k1: Remove useless casting in emufx.c

From: Geyslan GregÃrio Bem
Date: Wed Oct 16 2013 - 18:15:54 EST


2013/10/16 Geyslan GregÃrio Bem <geyslan@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2013/10/16 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>:
>> At Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:21:45 -0300,
>> Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
>>>
>>> Casting (void *) value returned by kcalloc is useless
>>> as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Geyslan G. Bem <geyslan@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> You missed __user prefix. You can't cast user and kernel pointers
>> implicitly.
>>
>>
>> Takashi
>>
>
> Takashi,
>
> My mistake, I'll fix that later.
>
> Thank you.

I sent a substitute patch:
[PATCH] sound: pci: emu10k1: code refactoring and casting removal

Thank you.

>
>>> ---
>>> sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c | 12 +++++-------
>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c b/sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c
>>> index 0275209..3f51dac 100644
>>> --- a/sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c
>>> +++ b/sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c
>>> @@ -1183,9 +1183,8 @@ static int _snd_emu10k1_audigy_init_efx(struct snd_emu10k1 *emu)
>>> mm_segment_t seg;
>>>
>>> if ((icode = kzalloc(sizeof(*icode), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL ||
>>> - (icode->gpr_map = (u_int32_t __user *)
>>> - kcalloc(512 + 256 + 256 + 2 * 1024, sizeof(u_int32_t),
>>> - GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL ||
>>> + (icode->gpr_map = kcalloc(512 + 256 + 256 + 2 * 1024, sizeof(u_int32_t),
>>> + GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL ||
>>> (controls = kcalloc(SND_EMU10K1_GPR_CONTROLS,
>>> sizeof(*controls), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
>>> err = -ENOMEM;
>>> @@ -1815,10 +1814,9 @@ static int _snd_emu10k1_init_efx(struct snd_emu10k1 *emu)
>>>
>>> if ((icode = kzalloc(sizeof(*icode), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL)
>>> return -ENOMEM;
>>> - if ((icode->gpr_map = (u_int32_t __user *)
>>> - kcalloc(256 + 160 + 160 + 2 * 512, sizeof(u_int32_t),
>>> - GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL ||
>>> - (controls = kcalloc(SND_EMU10K1_GPR_CONTROLS,
>>> + if ((icode->gpr_map = kcalloc(256 + 160 + 160 + 2 * 512, sizeof(u_int32_t),
>>> + GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL ||
>>> + (controls = kcalloc(SND_EMU10K1_GPR_CONTROLS,
>>> sizeof(struct snd_emu10k1_fx8010_control_gpr),
>>> GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL ||
>>> (ipcm = kzalloc(sizeof(*ipcm), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
>>> --
>>> 1.8.4
>>>
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