scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of void ptr returning alloc function return values
authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:09:25 +0000 (00:09 +0100)
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:26:40 +0000 (15:26 +0100)
The [vk][cmz]alloc(_node) family of functions return void pointers which
it's completely unnecessary/pointless to cast to other pointer types since
that happens implicitly.

This patch removes such casts from drivers/scsi/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c
drivers/scsi/osst.c

index 3f5a542a77938e15b34aa64ae45d379af70a6048..e021b4812d585a377d446bd677c5cb8a40db2ff2 100644 (file)
@@ -4780,7 +4780,7 @@ ahc_init_scbdata(struct ahc_softc *ahc)
        SLIST_INIT(&scb_data->sg_maps);
 
        /* Allocate SCB resources */
-       scb_data->scbarray = (struct scb *)kmalloc(sizeof(struct scb) * AHC_SCB_MAX_ALLOC, GFP_ATOMIC);
+       scb_data->scbarray = kmalloc(sizeof(struct scb) * AHC_SCB_MAX_ALLOC, GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (scb_data->scbarray == NULL)
                return (ENOMEM);
        memset(scb_data->scbarray, 0, sizeof(struct scb) * AHC_SCB_MAX_ALLOC);
index 54de1d1af1a7377d9b0fba6e20753f0fd6854908..521e2182d45bf44394f6a419bfbcabe57430bb19 100644 (file)
@@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ static int osst_read_back_buffer_and_rewrite(struct osst_tape * STp, struct osst
        int                     dbg              = debugging;
 #endif
 
-       if ((buffer = (unsigned char *)vmalloc((nframes + 1) * OS_DATA_SIZE)) == NULL)
+       if ((buffer = vmalloc((nframes + 1) * OS_DATA_SIZE)) == NULL)
                return (-EIO);
 
        printk(KERN_INFO "%s:I: Reading back %d frames from drive buffer%s\n",
@@ -2296,7 +2296,7 @@ static int osst_write_header(struct osst_tape * STp, struct osst_request ** aSRp
        if (STp->raw) return 0;
 
        if (STp->header_cache == NULL) {
-               if ((STp->header_cache = (os_header_t *)vmalloc(sizeof(os_header_t))) == NULL) {
+               if ((STp->header_cache = vmalloc(sizeof(os_header_t))) == NULL) {
                        printk(KERN_ERR "%s:E: Failed to allocate header cache\n", name);
                        return (-ENOMEM);
                }
@@ -2484,7 +2484,7 @@ static int __osst_analyze_headers(struct osst_tape * STp, struct osst_request **
                                   name, ppos, update_frame_cntr);
 #endif
                if (STp->header_cache == NULL) {
-                       if ((STp->header_cache = (os_header_t *)vmalloc(sizeof(os_header_t))) == NULL) {
+                       if ((STp->header_cache = vmalloc(sizeof(os_header_t))) == NULL) {
                                printk(KERN_ERR "%s:E: Failed to allocate header cache\n", name);
                                return 0;
                        }
@@ -5851,9 +5851,7 @@ static int osst_probe(struct device *dev)
        /* if this is the first attach, build the infrastructure */
        write_lock(&os_scsi_tapes_lock);
        if (os_scsi_tapes == NULL) {
-               os_scsi_tapes =
-                       (struct osst_tape **)kmalloc(osst_max_dev * sizeof(struct osst_tape *),
-                                  GFP_ATOMIC);
+               os_scsi_tapes = kmalloc(osst_max_dev * sizeof(struct osst_tape *), GFP_ATOMIC);
                if (os_scsi_tapes == NULL) {
                        write_unlock(&os_scsi_tapes_lock);
                        printk(KERN_ERR "osst :E: Unable to allocate array for OnStream SCSI tapes.\n");