[PATCH 3/4] VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): Cocci spatch "alloc_cast"

From: Thomas Meyer
Date: Thu Sep 21 2017 - 02:45:29 EST


Remove casting the values returned by memory allocation functions like
kmalloc, kzalloc, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc."
Found by coccinelle spatch "api/alloc/alloc_cast.cocci"

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
---

diff -u -p a/fs/ncpfs/inode.c b/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
--- a/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache * ncp_inode_cac
static struct inode *ncp_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
{
struct ncp_inode_info *ei;
- ei = (struct ncp_inode_info *)kmem_cache_alloc(ncp_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ei = kmem_cache_alloc(ncp_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ei)
return NULL;
return &ei->vfs_inode;