[PATCH] KVM: PPC: e500: Casting (void *) value returned by kmallocis useless

From: Thomas Meyer
Date: Tue Nov 08 2011 - 14:17:52 EST


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 change 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/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c 2011-11-07 19:37:27.329638682 +0100
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c 2011-11-08 09:18:39.955928218 +0100
@@ -1026,11 +1026,11 @@ int kvmppc_e500_tlb_init(struct kvmppc_v
if (vcpu_e500->gtlb_arch[1] == NULL)
goto err_out_guest0;

- vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = (struct tlbe_priv *)
+ vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] =
kzalloc(sizeof(struct tlbe_priv) * KVM_E500_TLB0_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] == NULL)
goto err_out_guest1;
- vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = (struct tlbe_priv *)
+ vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] =
kzalloc(sizeof(struct tlbe_priv) * KVM_E500_TLB1_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);

if (vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] == NULL)


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