linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI: hv: Remove unnecessary type casting from kzalloc

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Date:   Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:59:56 -0800
From:   Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
To:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        lorenzo.pieralisi@....com, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mikelley@...rosoft.com
Cc:     Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI: hv: Remove unnecessary type casting from kzalloc

In C, there is no need to cast a void * to any other pointer type.

Fixes: 877b911a5ba0 ("PCI: hv: Avoid a kmemleak false positive caused by the hbus buffer")
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
---

Change in v2: this was part of v1.

 drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
index 9977abff92fc..0fe0283368d2 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
@@ -2922,7 +2922,7 @@ static int hv_pci_probe(struct hv_device *hdev,
 	 * positive by using kmemleak_alloc() and kmemleak_free() to ask
 	 * kmemleak to track and scan the hbus buffer.
 	 */
-	hbus = (struct hv_pcibus_device *)kzalloc(HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	hbus = kzalloc(HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hbus)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	hbus->state = hv_pcibus_init;
-- 
2.19.1