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Message-Id: <1445688589-5856-1-git-send-email-punitvara@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 24 Oct 2015 17:39:49 +0530
From:	Punit Vara <punitvara@...il.com>
To:	don.brace@...s.com
Cc:	iss_storagedev@...com, storagedev@...s.com,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Punit Vara <punitvara@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] block: remove useless casting value returned by kmalloc to structure

This is the patch to the cciss_scsi.c file that resolves following warning
reported by coccicheck:

WARNING: casting value returned by memory allocation function to (struct
cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t *) is useless.

Signed-off-by: Punit Vara <punitvara@...il.com>
---
 drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
index 1537302..4c27032 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
@@ -703,8 +703,7 @@ cciss_scsi_setup(ctlr_info_t *h)
 	struct cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t * shba;
 
 	ccissscsi[h->ctlr].ndevices = 0;
-	shba = (struct cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t *)
-		kmalloc(sizeof(*shba), GFP_KERNEL);	
+	shba = kmalloc(sizeof(*shba), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (shba == NULL)
 		return;
 	shba->scsi_host = NULL;
-- 
2.5.3

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