[PATCH v10 04/19] net/pcap: remove unnecessary casts

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Jan 30 02:12:20 CET 2026


The function rte_zmalloc returns void * so cast is unnecessary.

Correct the indentation in that code. Not really worth backporting.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
index 4513d46d61..fbd1021c39 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
@@ -1220,9 +1220,8 @@ pmd_init_internals(struct rte_vdev_device *vdev,
 	PMD_LOG(INFO, "Creating pcap-backed ethdev on numa socket %d",
 		numa_node);
 
-	pp = (struct pmd_process_private *)
-		rte_zmalloc(NULL, sizeof(struct pmd_process_private),
-				RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+	pp = rte_zmalloc(NULL, sizeof(struct pmd_process_private),
+			 RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
 
 	if (pp == NULL) {
 		PMD_LOG(ERR,
@@ -1590,10 +1589,8 @@ pmd_pcap_probe(struct rte_vdev_device *dev)
 		unsigned int i;
 
 		internal = eth_dev->data->dev_private;
-			pp = (struct pmd_process_private *)
-				rte_zmalloc(NULL,
-					sizeof(struct pmd_process_private),
-					RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+		pp = rte_zmalloc(NULL, sizeof(struct pmd_process_private),
+				 RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
 
 		if (pp == NULL) {
 			PMD_LOG(ERR,
-- 
2.51.0



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