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Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:39:08 +0200 From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: [PATCH] staging: tidspbridge: dont cast void* from kmalloc() From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de> 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 <thomas@...3r.de> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/gen/gh.c b/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/gen/gh.c --- a/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/gen/gh.c 2011-04-14 10:34:38.600880635 +0200 +++ b/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/gen/gh.c 2011-08-01 19:58:07.230403689 +0200 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ struct gh_t_hash_tab *gh_create(u16 max_ 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); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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