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" Run against version v4.14-rc1 Let me know when you as a maintainer are not interested in these kind of patches. I can exclude you by path; e.g. all findings in "drivers/scsi" will never be reported again by this semi-automatic program runs.