Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] [media] v4l: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless | From | Thomas Meyer <> | Date | Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100 |
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The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> ---
diff -u -p a/drivers/media/video/vino.c b/drivers/media/video/vino.c --- a/drivers/media/video/vino.c 2011-11-07 19:37:51.673341747 +0100 +++ b/drivers/media/video/vino.c 2011-11-08 09:05:04.618617718 +0100 @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static int vino_allocate_buffer(struct v size, count); /* allocate memory for table with virtual (page) addresses */ - fb->desc_table.virtual = (unsigned long *) + fb->desc_table.virtual = kmalloc(count * sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL); if (!fb->desc_table.virtual) return -ENOMEM;
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