Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] ks8*/ksz8*: 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/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c 2011-11-07 19:37:59.170122280 +0100 +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c 2011-11-08 09:00:03.544702580 +0100 @@ -1500,8 +1500,7 @@ static int ks_hw_init(struct ks_net *ks) ks->all_mcast = 0; ks->mcast_lst_size = 0; - ks->frame_head_info = (struct type_frame_head *) \ - kmalloc(MHEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + ks->frame_head_info = kmalloc(MHEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (!ks->frame_head_info) { pr_err("Error: Fail to allocate frame memory\n"); return false;
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