Re: [PATCH 14/15] arm: Remove pointless kmalloc() return value cast in kvm mmu.

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Firo Yang wrote:

> No need to cast the void pointer returned by kmalloc() in
> arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c::kvm_alloc_stage2_pgd().

arm in the subject line seems much too generic for this file.  Looking at
git log --oneline arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c suggests that ARM: KVM: is popular.

julia

>
> Signed-off-by: Firo Yang <firogm@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> index 1d5accb..ce0bce4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -691,8 +691,8 @@ int kvm_alloc_stage2_pgd(struct kvm *kvm)
>  		 * work.  This is not used by the hardware and we have no
>  		 * alignment requirement for this allocation.
>  		 */
> -		pgd = (pgd_t *)kmalloc(PTRS_PER_S2_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t),
> -				       GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
> +		pgd = kmalloc(PTRS_PER_S2_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t),
> +				GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
>
>  		if (!pgd) {
>  			kvm_free_hwpgd(hwpgd);
> --
> 2.1.0
>
>
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