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 <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- linux-next.orig/drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c 2012-10-27 11:23:51.885567926 +0800
+++ linux-next/drivers/staging/ced1401/ced_ioc.c 2012-10-27 11:25:39.049570466 +0800
@@ -697,8 +697,7 @@ static int SetArea(DEVICE_EXTENSION * pd
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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