linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] fs/ocfs2/dlm: Drop memory allocation cast

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Message-ID: <20100511185329.GA10423@mail.oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 May 2010 11:53:30 -0700
From:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] fs/ocfs2/dlm: Drop memory allocation cast

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:28:14PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> Drop cast on the result of kmalloc and similar functions.
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> type T;
> @@
> 
> - (T *)
>   (\(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\|
>    kmem_cache_alloc_node\|kmalloc_node\|kzalloc_node\)(...))
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@...cle.com>

	You're welcome to push this.  Let me know if you want me to send
it via ocfs2.git.

Joel

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