[alsa-devel] [PATCH 4/4] ALSA: emu10k1: Cocci spatch "alloc_cast"

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Thu Sep 21 10:00:01 CEST 2017


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 at m3y3r.de>

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


thanks,

Takashi


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