From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:32:05 -0700 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 4/5] fs/ocfs2/dlm: Drop memory allocation cast In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100518193205.GD3239@mail.oracle.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Julia Lawall Cc: Mark Fasheh , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:28:14PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall > > Drop cast on the result of kmalloc and similar functions. > > The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // > @@ > type T; > @@ > > - (T *) > (\(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\| > kmem_cache_alloc_node\|kmalloc_node\|kzalloc_node\)(...)) > // > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall This patch is now in the merge-window branch of ocfs2.git. Joel -- Viro's Razor: Any race condition, no matter how unlikely, will occur just often enough to bite you. Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker at oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127