linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs/9p: remove unnecessary cast on return from kmem_cache

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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:57:21 +0000
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
        Ron Minnich <rminnich@...dia.gov>,
        Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs/9p: remove unnecessary cast on return from kmem_cache_alloc

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

The cast on the return from kmem_cache_alloc is unnecessary and can
be removed.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 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 bdabb2765d1b..6c4baeb257b7 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
-- 
2.14.1