From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14. The semantic patch that makes this output is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c --- a/net/sctp/protocol.c 2011-07-26 00:46:12.663489013 +0200 +++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c 2011-08-01 20:02:43.478907122 +0200 @@ -1337,7 +1337,7 @@ SCTP_STATIC __init int sctp_init(void) /* Allocate and initialize the endpoint hash table. */ sctp_ep_hashsize = 64; - sctp_ep_hashtable = (struct sctp_hashbucket *) + sctp_ep_hashtable = kmalloc(64 * sizeof(struct sctp_hashbucket), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sctp_ep_hashtable) { pr_err("Failed endpoint_hash alloc\n"); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
