May 11 2010

drivers/net/wireless/hostap: Drop memory allocation cast 

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

Drop cast on the result of kmalloc and similar functions.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// 
@@
type T;
@@

- (T *)
  (\(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\|
   kmem_cache_alloc_node\|kmalloc_node\|kzalloc_node\)(...))
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 

---
 drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c | 3 +--
 drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c    | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c
index 3816df9..fa592cb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c
@@ -354,8 +354,7 @@ static struct hostap_bss_info *__hostap_add_bss(local_info_t *local, u8 *bssid,
 		list_del(&bss->list);
 		local->num_bss_info--;
 	} else {
-		bss = (struct hostap_bss_info *)
-			kmalloc(sizeof(*bss), GFP_ATOMIC);
+		bss = kmalloc(sizeof(*bss), GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (bss == NULL)
 			return NULL;
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c
index 9419ceb..f12a797 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c
@@ -3038,8 +3038,7 @@ static int prism2_ioctl_priv_download(local_info_t *local, struct iw_point *p)
 	    p->length > 1024 || !p->pointer)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	param = (struct prism2_download_param *)
-		kmalloc(p->length, GFP_KERNEL);
+	param = kmalloc(p->length, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (param == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;

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