[PATCH] sound: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value casts

Get rid of unnessesary casts of kmalloc() return value in sound/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[e-mail]>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <[e-mail]>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>

sound/core/rawmidi.c

···
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 	if (params->buffer_size != runtime->buffer_size) {
-		if ((newbuf = (char *) kmalloc(params->buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL)
+		newbuf = kmalloc(params->buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!newbuf)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		kfree(runtime->buffer);
 		runtime->buffer = newbuf;
···
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 	if (params->buffer_size != runtime->buffer_size) {
-		if ((newbuf = (char *) kmalloc(params->buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL)
+		newbuf = kmalloc(params->buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!newbuf)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		kfree(runtime->buffer);
 		runtime->buffer = newbuf;

sound/oss/dmasound/dmasound_awacs.c

···
 			DBDMA_ALIGN(beep_dbdma_cmd_space);
 	/* set up emergency dbdma cmd */
 	emergency_dbdma_cmd = beep_dbdma_cmd+1 ;
-	beep_buf = (short *) kmalloc(BEEP_BUFLEN * 4, GFP_KERNEL);
+	beep_buf = kmalloc(BEEP_BUFLEN * 4, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (beep_buf == NULL) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "dmasound_pmac: no memory for beep buffer\n");
 		kfree(beep_dbdma_cmd_space) ;

sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c

···
 
 	init_midi_hdr(midihdr);
 
-	if ((midihdr->data = (u8 *) kmalloc(MIDIIN_BUFLEN, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
+	midihdr->data = kmalloc(MIDIIN_BUFLEN, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!midihdr->data) {
 		ERROR();
 		kfree(midihdr);
 		return -1;
···
 	midihdr->bytesrecorded = 0;
 	midihdr->flags = 0;
 
-	if ((midihdr->data = (u8 *) kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
+	midihdr->data = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!midihdr->data) {
 		ERROR();
 		kfree(midihdr);
 		return -EINVAL;
···
 	midihdr->bytesrecorded = 0;
 	midihdr->flags = 0;
 
-	if ((midihdr->data = (u8 *) kmalloc(1, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
+	midihdr->data = kmalloc(1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!midihdr->data) {
 		ERROR();
 		kfree(midihdr);
 		return -EINVAL;

sound/oss/sh_dac_audio.c

···
 
 	in_use = 0;
 
-	data_buffer = (char *)kmalloc(BUFFER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	data_buffer = kmalloc(BUFFER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (data_buffer == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;