From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755472AbcJNU0r (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:26:47 -0400 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:39854 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932817AbcJNUXx (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:23:53 -0400 To: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iss_storagedev@hp.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "James E.J. Bottomley" , esc.storagedev@microsemi.com, Don Brace , "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: hpsa: remove unneeded void pointer cast From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <1476375008-10034-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:23:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1476375008-10034-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> (Javier Martinez Canillas's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:10:08 -0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Javier" == Javier Martinez Canillas writes: Javier> It's not necessary to cast the result of kmalloc, since void Javier> pointers are promoted to any other type. This also fixes Javier> following coccinelle warning: Javier> casting value returned by memory allocation function to Javier> (BIG_IOCTL_Command_struct *) is useless. Applied to 4.10/scsi-queue. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering