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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: "Thomas Meyer" <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>, <perex@perex.cz>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ALSA: emu10k1: Cocci spatch "alloc_cast"
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:00:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5ha81ocwhq.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1505975570447-568224618-4-diffsplit-thomas@m3y3r.de>

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 08:33:46 +0200,
Thomas Meyer wrote:
> 
> Remove casting the values returned by memory allocation functions like
> kmalloc, kzalloc, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc."
> Found by coccinelle spatch "api/alloc/alloc_cast.cocci"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

No, this cast is still required because it has __user annotation.
It's not about compiler warning but about sparse.


thanks,

Takashi

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-21  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-21  6:33 [PATCH 0/4] Cocci spatch "alloc_cast" - v4.14-rc1 Thomas Meyer
2017-09-21  6:33 ` [PATCH 1/4] drm/amd/powerplay: Cocci spatch "alloc_cast" Thomas Meyer
2017-09-21  6:55   ` Deucher, Alexander
2017-09-26 16:10   ` Alex Deucher
2017-09-21  6:33 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs: " Thomas Meyer
2017-09-21  6:33 ` [PATCH 4/4] ALSA: emu10k1: " Thomas Meyer
2017-09-21  8:00   ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2017-09-21 17:39   ` Al Viro
2017-09-21 20:39     ` Takashi Iwai
2017-09-21  6:33 ` [PATCH 3/4] VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): " Thomas Meyer

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