From 4b608983fe9cbb522e6dd819ea357a3af89f2e8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Meyer Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:28:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Staging: rts_pstor: dont cast void* from kmalloc() Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14. The semantic patch that makes this output is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/rts_pstor/spi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/spi.c b/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/spi.c index c803ba635509..6b36cc532a8c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/spi.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/spi.c @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ int spi_read_flash_id(struct scsi_cmnd *srb, struct rtsx_chip *chip) } if (len) { - buf = (u8 *)kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) TRACE_RET(chip, STATUS_ERROR); -- 2.20.1