[PATCH] proc: Remove cast from memory allocation

From: Tobin C. Harding
Date: Wed Feb 22 2017 - 01:42:24 EST


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

Remove unnecessary cast.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@xxxxxxxx>
---
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 842a5ff..1eb2326 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;
--
2.7.4