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block: remove useless casting value returned by kmalloc to structure

PATCH In review Punit Vara 2 participants 2 messages Oct 24, 2015 – Oct 25, 2015

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PATCH 1/1 block: remove useless casting value returned by kmalloc to structure

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 <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c +1 -2
index 1537302..4c27032 100644
@@ -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;
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