Re: [PATCH 28/30] jfs: avoid pointless casts of kmalloc() returnval

From: Dave Kleikamp
Date: Fri Aug 24 2007 - 00:20:42 EST


Thanks, but Jack Stone submitted the same patch a few weeks ago. It's
already in the jfs git tree and the -mm kernel.

Shaggy

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 02:36 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> There's no need to cast the, void *, return value of kmalloc() when
> assigning to a pointer variable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c | 8 ++------
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c
> index c14ba3c..3f15b36 100644
> --- a/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c
> +++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c
> @@ -592,9 +592,7 @@ int dtSearch(struct inode *ip, struct component_name * key, ino_t * data,
> struct component_name ciKey;
> struct super_block *sb = ip->i_sb;
>
> - ciKey.name =
> - (wchar_t *) kmalloc((JFS_NAME_MAX + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t),
> - GFP_NOFS);
> + ciKey.name = kmalloc((JFS_NAME_MAX + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t), GFP_NOFS);
> if (ciKey.name == 0) {
> rc = -ENOMEM;
> goto dtSearch_Exit2;
> @@ -957,9 +955,7 @@ static int dtSplitUp(tid_t tid,
> smp = split->mp;
> sp = DT_PAGE(ip, smp);
>
> - key.name =
> - (wchar_t *) kmalloc((JFS_NAME_MAX + 2) * sizeof(wchar_t),
> - GFP_NOFS);
> + key.name = kmalloc((JFS_NAME_MAX + 2) * sizeof(wchar_t), GFP_NOFS);
> if (key.name == 0) {
> DT_PUTPAGE(smp);
> rc = -ENOMEM;
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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