linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/30] powerpc: Don't cast kmalloc return value in ibmebus.c

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Message-Id: <91dcfc2a1b0be436d04f9bc45bb6f8657a8d6ff4.1187912217.git.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:45:08 +0200
From:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko J Schick <schickhj@...ibm.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 04/30] powerpc: Don't cast kmalloc return value in ibmebus.c

kmalloc() returns a void pointer so there is absolutely no need to
cast it in ibmebus_chomp().

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c
index 9a8c9af..9514e66 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c
@@ -383,7 +383,8 @@ static int ibmebus_match_path(struct device *dev, void *data)
 
 static char *ibmebus_chomp(const char *in, size_t count)
 {
-	char *out = (char*)kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	char *out = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+
 	if (!out)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
1.5.2.2

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