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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Bas Peters <baspeters93@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, oleg@redhat.com, adobriyan@gmail.com,
	gorcunov@openvz.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: proc: inode.c: remove unnecessary type cast
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:02:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ug4k0lb.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1423655925-15853-1-git-send-email-baspeters93@gmail.com> (Bas Peters's message of "Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:58:45 +0100")

Bas Peters <baspeters93@gmail.com> writes:

> Issue was detected using Coccinelle.

I believe Al Viro wrote that deliberately.

> Signed-off-by: Bas Peters <baspeters93@gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/proc/inode.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
> index 8420a2f..e16ee87 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static struct inode *proc_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
>  	struct proc_inode *ei;
>  	struct inode *inode;
>  
> -	ei = (struct proc_inode *)kmem_cache_alloc(proc_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	ei = kmem_cache_alloc(proc_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!ei)
>  		return NULL;
>  	ei->pid = NULL;

Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2015-02-11 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-11 11:58 [PATCH] fs: proc: inode.c: remove unnecessary type cast Bas Peters
2015-02-11 14:02 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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