linux-kernel - [PATCH 28/30] jfs: avoid pointless casts of kmalloc() return val

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Message-Id: <18983edfb06c7b133f699e34194112ca6a53b14d.1187912217.git.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:36:43 +0200
From:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>,
	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 28/30] jfs: avoid pointless casts of kmalloc() return val

There's no need to cast the, void *, return value of kmalloc() when
assigning to a pointer variable.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
---
 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c |    8 ++------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c
index c14ba3c..3f15b36 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c
@@ -592,9 +592,7 @@ int dtSearch(struct inode *ip, struct component_name * key, ino_t * data,
 	struct component_name ciKey;
 	struct super_block *sb = ip->i_sb;
 
-	ciKey.name =
-	    (wchar_t *) kmalloc((JFS_NAME_MAX + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t),
-				GFP_NOFS);
+	ciKey.name = kmalloc((JFS_NAME_MAX + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t), GFP_NOFS);
 	if (ciKey.name == 0) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto dtSearch_Exit2;
@@ -957,9 +955,7 @@ static int dtSplitUp(tid_t tid,
 	smp = split->mp;
 	sp = DT_PAGE(ip, smp);
 
-	key.name =
-	    (wchar_t *) kmalloc((JFS_NAME_MAX + 2) * sizeof(wchar_t),
-				GFP_NOFS);
+	key.name = kmalloc((JFS_NAME_MAX + 2) * sizeof(wchar_t), GFP_NOFS);
 	if (key.name == 0) {
 		DT_PUTPAGE(smp);
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
-- 
1.5.2.2

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