Am 26.06.23 um 14:43 schrieb Srinivasan Shanmugam:
Fixes the following category of checkpatch complaints:
WARNING: unnecessary cast may hide bugs, see http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html
+ char *buf = (char *)kvcalloc(total, sizeof(char), GFP_KERNEL);
Cc: Rodrigo Siqueira <Rodrigo.Siqueira@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Aurabindo Pillai <aurabindo.pillai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Srinivasan Shanmugam <srinivasan.shanmugam@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
---
v3:
- Keeping same as v1 - so that variable "buf" remains to local to the block,
whereever it is declared, by having just removed the casting.
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c
index cd20cfc04996..4590deca25f8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ void dm_dtn_log_append_v(struct dc_context *ctx,
total = log_ctx->pos + n + 1;
if (total > log_ctx->size) {
- char *buf = (char *)kvcalloc(total, sizeof(char), GFP_KERNEL);
+ char *buf = kvcalloc(total, sizeof(char), GFP_KERNEL);
if (buf) {
memcpy(buf, log_ctx->buf, log_ctx->pos);
