From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 03:29:03 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: staging: ced1401: remove useless value cast on kmalloc()
X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e6c5abf2542f1a91d31ae536707c00cf0ceaf376;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

staging: ced1401: remove useless value cast on kmalloc()

Casting value returned by k[cmz]alloc to (struct page * *) is useless.

Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c b/drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c
index 0adba75be8b7..efe6aecbf9b7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c
@@ -697,8 +697,7 @@ static int SetArea(DEVICE_EXTENSION * pdx, int nArea, char __user * puBuf,
 		return -EFAULT;	// ...then we are done
 
 	// Now allocate space to hold the page pointer and virtual address pointer tables
-	pPages =
-	    (struct page **)kmalloc(len * sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	pPages = kmalloc(len * sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pPages) {
 		iReturn = U14ERR_NOMEMORY;
 		goto error;