linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs/9p: Remove cast from memory allocation

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Message-Id: <1487745253-15411-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc>
Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:34:13 +1100
From:   "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
To:     Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
        Ron Minnich <rminnich@...dia.gov>,
        Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>
Cc:     v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
Subject: [PATCH] fs/9p:  Remove cast from memory allocation

Coccinelle emits WARNING: casting value returned by memory allocation
function to (struct v9fs_inode *) is useless.

Remove unnecessary cast.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@...in.cc>
---
 fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
index f4f4450..462e9e4 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
@@ -238,8 +238,7 @@ v9fs_blank_wstat(struct p9_wstat *wstat)
 struct inode *v9fs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	struct v9fs_inode *v9inode;
-	v9inode = (struct v9fs_inode *)kmem_cache_alloc(v9fs_inode_cache,
-							GFP_KERNEL);
+	v9inode = kmem_cache_alloc(v9fs_inode_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!v9inode)
 		return NULL;
 #ifdef CONFIG_9P_FSCACHE
-- 
2.7.4