linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/4] Cocci spatch "alloc_cast"

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Message-ID: <1505975570447-826702259-0-diffsplit-thomas@m3y3r.de>
Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 08:33:46 +0200
From:   Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Cocci spatch "alloc_cast" - v4.14-rc1

Remove casting the values returned by memory allocation functions like
kmalloc, kzalloc, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc."

Found by coccinelle spatch "api/alloc/alloc_cast.cocci"

Run against version v4.14-rc1

Let me know when you as a maintainer are not interested in these kind of patches.
I can exclude you by path; e.g. all findings in "drivers/scsi" will never
be reported again by this semi-automatic program runs.