[PATCH] drivers: block: Remove unnecessary cast

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Wed Jan 11 2017 - 13:41:18 EST


This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:

@@
expression * e;
expression arg1, arg2;
type T;
@@

- e = (T *)
+ e =
kmalloc(arg1, arg2);

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 a18de9d..98ba8fc 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;
--
2.5.0