diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
index 1d5accb..ce0bce4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -691,8 +691,8 @@
 		 * work.  This is not used by the hardware and we have no
 		 * alignment requirement for this allocation.
 		 */
-		pgd = (pgd_t *)kmalloc(PTRS_PER_S2_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t),
-				       GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
+		pgd = kmalloc(PTRS_PER_S2_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t),
+				GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
 
 		if (!pgd) {
 			kvm_free_hwpgd(hwpgd);