linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ntfs: Drop cast

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Date:	Sun, 29 Jun 2014 01:30:37 +0100
From:	Anton Altaparmakov <anton@...era.com>
To:	Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntfs: Drop cast

Hi,

Thanks for your patch.  Your patch is obviously correct however I actually prefer to have the type casts in place because it clearly shows what the variable type being assigned to is so I find it makes the code more readable to cast void pointers to the target variable type so I don't have to go and look up the type higher up.  Having said that I don't feel that strongly about it so I have no real objection to the patch getting applied...

Best regards,

	Anton

On 28 Jun 2014, at 14:33, Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@...il.com> wrote:

> This patch removes the cast on data of type void * as it is not needed.
> The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used for making the change:
> 
> @r@
> expression x;
> void* e;
> type T;
> identifier f;
> @@
> 
> (
>  *((T *)e)
> |
>  ((T *)x)[...]
> |
>  ((T *)x)->f
> |
> - (T *)
>  e
> )
> 
> Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
> ---
> fs/ntfs/inode.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ntfs/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
> index f47af5e..b3c55fc 100644
> --- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
> @@ -1817,7 +1817,7 @@ int ntfs_read_inode_mount(struct inode *vi)
> 	i = vol->mft_record_size;
> 	if (i < sb->s_blocksize)
> 		i = sb->s_blocksize;
> -	m = (MFT_RECORD*)ntfs_malloc_nofs(i);
> +	m = ntfs_malloc_nofs(i);
> 	if (!m) {
> 		ntfs_error(sb, "Failed to allocate buffer for $MFT record 0.");
> 		goto err_out;

-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
University of Cambridge Information Services, Roger Needham Building
7 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0RB, UK

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