This patch does away with cast on void * and the if as it is unnecessary. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used for making the change: @r@ expression x; void* e; type T; identifier f; @@ ( *((T *)e) | ((T *)x)[...] | ((T *)x)->f | - (T *) e ) Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: remove the if statement fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c index 4d6c7e4..e67f9f0 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c @@ -53,9 +53,7 @@ static void unlock_dir(struct dentry *dir) static int ecryptfs_inode_test(struct inode *inode, void *lower_inode) { - if (ecryptfs_inode_to_lower(inode) == (struct inode *)lower_inode) - return 1; - return 0; + return ecryptfs_inode_to_lower(inode) == lower_inode; } static int ecryptfs_inode_set(struct inode *inode, void *opaque) -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ecryptfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html