From: Thomas Meyer Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:39:08 +0000 (+0200) Subject: staging: tidspbridge: dont cast void* from kmalloc() X-Git-Url: http://git.mmlx.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c670f4d157bcaba0001455ace554572b9b417ef;p=linux-edison.git staging: tidspbridge: 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/tidspbridge/gen/gh.c b/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/gen/gh.c index cd725033f27..60aa7b063c9 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/gen/gh.c +++ b/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/gen/gh.c @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ struct gh_t_hash_tab *gh_create(u16 max_bucket, u16 val_size, hash_tab->match = match; hash_tab->delete = delete == NULL ? noop : delete; - hash_tab->buckets = (struct element **) + hash_tab->buckets = kzalloc(sizeof(struct element *) * max_bucket, GFP_KERNEL); if (hash_tab->buckets == NULL) { gh_delete(hash_tab);