Nov 08 2011

HID: hid-lg4ff: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless 

Author: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless
as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14.

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 

---
 drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c b/drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c
index 103f30d..6ecc9e2 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ int lg4ff_init(struct hid_device *hid)
 	}
 
 	/* Add the device to device_list */
-	entry = (struct lg4ff_device_entry *)kzalloc(sizeof(struct lg4ff_device_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+	entry = kzalloc(sizeof(struct lg4ff_device_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!entry) {
 		hid_err(hid, "Cannot add device, insufficient memory.\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;

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