From 9bf97a024bf73c4b57ffccbb52aa7f63e3e3c568 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Javier Martinez Canillas Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:10:08 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Don Brace Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Orabug: 25605941 (cherry picked from commit 19be606be1df35479333bd04e2cdaddc9d77e38c) Signed-off-by: Jack Vogel --- drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c index 01869f92d5b3..c72378df46c5 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; -- 2.50.1