From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:10:08 +0000 (-0300)
Subject: scsi: hpsa: Remove unneeded void pointer cast
X-Git-Tag: v4.1.12-93~2^2~137
X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9bf97a024bf73c4b57ffccbb52aa7f63e3e3c568;p=users%2Fjedix%2Flinux-maple.git

scsi: hpsa: Remove unneeded void pointer cast

It's not necessary to cast the result of kmalloc, since void pointers
are promoted to any other type. This also fixes following coccinelle
warning:

casting value returned by memory allocation function to (BIG_IOCTL_Command_struct *) is useless.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

Orabug: 25605941
(cherry picked from commit 19be606be1df35479333bd04e2cdaddc9d77e38c)
Signed-off-by: Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
index 01869f92d5b33..c72378df46c56 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
@@ -6698,8 +6698,7 @@ static int hpsa_big_passthru_ioctl(struct ctlr_info *h, void __user *argp)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
 		return -EPERM;
-	ioc = (BIG_IOCTL_Command_struct *)
-	    kmalloc(sizeof(*ioc), GFP_KERNEL);
+	ioc = kmalloc(sizeof(*ioc), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ioc) {
 		status = -ENOMEM;
 		goto cleanup1;