Heinrich Schuchardt cb2a2ebd4f coccinelle: check for casting malloc output ...

Casting the (void *) output of memory allocation functions before
assignment like in

	sata->cmd_hdr_tbl_offset = (void *)malloc(length + align);

is useless.

Adopt the Linux kernel script
scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/alloc_cast.cocci.

Now 'make coccicheck' generates warnings like:

./drivers/ata/fsl_sata.c:143:29-33:
WARNING: casting value returned by memory allocation function
to (void *) is useless.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>

2020-04-24 16:40:09 -04:00

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alloc_cast.cocci

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