[PATCH] block: remove useless casting value returned by kmalloc to structure

From: Punit Vara
Date: Sat Oct 24 2015 - 08:10:16 EST


This is the patch to the cciss_scsi.c file that resolves following warning
reported by coccicheck:

WARNING: casting value returned by memory allocation function to (struct
cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t *) is useless.

Signed-off-by: Punit Vara <punitvara@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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 1537302..4c27032 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
@@ -703,8 +703,7 @@ 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;
--
2.5.3

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