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: Greg Kroah-Hartman — drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/unioxx5.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_misc.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio-upstream.c | 6 ++—- …