netdev - [PATCH] octeon_ep: Remove useless casting value returned by vzalloc to structure

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Message-ID: <Yx+sr9o0uylXVcOl@playground>
Date:   Mon, 12 Sep 2022 23:03:27 +0100
From:   Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@...il.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] octeon_ep: Remove useless casting value returned by vzalloc
 to structure

coccinelle reports a warning

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

To fix this the useless cast is removed.

Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c
index d9ae0937d17a..392d9b0da0d7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_rx.c
@@ -158,8 +158,7 @@ static int octep_setup_oq(struct octep_device *oct, int q_no)
 		goto desc_dma_alloc_err;
 	}
 
-	oq->buff_info = (struct octep_rx_buffer *)
-			vzalloc(oq->max_count * OCTEP_OQ_RECVBUF_SIZE);
+	oq->buff_info = vzalloc(oq->max_count * OCTEP_OQ_RECVBUF_SIZE);
 	if (unlikely(!oq->buff_info)) {
 		dev_err(&oct->pdev->dev,
 			"Failed to allocate buffer info for OQ-%d\n", q_no);
-- 
2.35.1