coccinelle: check for casting malloc output
authorHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:07:34 +0000 (11:07 +0200)
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:40:09 +0000 (16:40 -0400)
commitcb2a2ebd4f93220936de721918ed9a3ca57cc5db
treeabe4255ab3c9f52cb753a79ff9dcea995887446a
parentb5a2046376e7f18f796f641a51fdc66a5a52306a
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>
scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/alloc_cast.cocci [new file with mode: 0644]