On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 08:07:15AM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 09:54:07AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > Return value from kmalloc() does not require a cast.
> > 
> > Remove unnecessary cast.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <m...@tobin.cc>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c 
> > b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> > index 1451ba7..e1e4a31 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> > @@ -2561,7 +2561,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_data_write(struct net_device *dev,
> >     if (priv->sleep_mode == SLP_SLEEP)
> >             return -EPERM;
> >     /* for SLEEP MODE */
> > -   wbuff = (unsigned char *)kmalloc(dwrq->length, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > +   wbuff = kmalloc(dwrq->length, GFP_ATOMIC);
> >     if (!wbuff)
> >             return -EFAULT;
> 
> This should also return -ENOMEM, but that's a separate fix :)

Good catch. I'll make a note of this and when/if the patch set gets
merged do a separate patch with this fix since it is not checkpatch
related.

thanks,
Tobin.
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