linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers: block: Remove unnecessary cast

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Message-ID: <20170111174408.Horde.jhUrOBQ9W11ivhR3LHCArVC@gator4166.hostgator.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:44:08 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     don.brace@...rosemi.com, esc.storagedev@...rosemi.com,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: block: Remove unnecessary cast


Quoting Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:41:05PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:
>>
>> @@
>> expression * e;
>> expression arg1, arg2;
>> type T;
>> @@
>>
>> - e = (T *)
>> + e =
>> kmalloc(arg1, arg2);
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c | 3 +--
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Why send this to me?

Oops... Sorry... I was also working with the Staging tree, so it seems  
your e-mail address got in the middle at some point.

--
Gustavo A. R. Silva