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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Don Brace <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
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;