[PATCH] [media] v4l: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc isuseless

From: Thomas Meyer
Date: Fri Nov 18 2011 - 04:30:12 EST


The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/media/video/vino.c b/drivers/media/video/vino.c
--- a/drivers/media/video/vino.c 2011-11-07 19:37:51.673341747 +0100
+++ b/drivers/media/video/vino.c 2011-11-08 09:05:04.618617718 +0100
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static int vino_allocate_buffer(struct v
size, count);

/* allocate memory for table with virtual (page) addresses */
- fb->desc_table.virtual = (unsigned long *)
+ fb->desc_table.virtual =
kmalloc(count * sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fb->desc_table.virtual)
return -ENOMEM;
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