The assignment operator implicitly converts a void pointer to the type of the
pointer it is assigned to.
This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:
@@
expression * e;
expression arg1, arg2;
type T;
@@
- e=(T*)
+ e=
kmalloc(arg1, arg2);
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsi...@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_buffer_mgr.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_buffer_mgr.c
b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_buffer_mgr.c
index b35871e..18a8694 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_buffer_mgr.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_buffer_mgr.c
@@ -1725,8 +1725,7 @@ int ssi_buffer_mgr_init(struct ssi_drvdata *drvdata)
struct buff_mgr_handle *buff_mgr_handle;
struct device *dev = &drvdata->plat_dev->dev;
- buff_mgr_handle = (struct buff_mgr_handle *)
- kmalloc(sizeof(struct buff_mgr_handle), GFP_KERNEL);
+ buff_mgr_handle = kmalloc(sizeof(struct buff_mgr_handle), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buff_mgr_handle)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.5.0
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