Coccinelle emits a warning about casting the return value of kmalloc(). Coccinelle suggests removing the cast as do kerneljanitors. Remove cast from kmalloc() call. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c index f5c21f3..01a1f7e 100644 --- a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c +++ b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c @@ -647,8 +647,7 @@ cciss_scsi_setup(ctlr_info_t *h) struct cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t * shba; ccissscsi[h->ctlr].ndevices = 0; - shba = (struct cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t *) - kmalloc(sizeof(*shba), GFP_KERNEL); + shba = kmalloc(sizeof(*shba), GFP_KERNEL); if (shba == NULL) return; shba->scsi_host = NULL; -- 2.7.4