Oct 27 2012

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

Author: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

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 

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

---
 drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c b/drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c
index 0adba75..efe6aec 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;

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