The cast is not type safe, and we can just dereference the first member instead to start with. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c index 71d216cf6f87..419eae485ff3 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ xfs_lock_inodes( */ if (!try_lock) { for (j = (i - 1); j >= 0 && !try_lock; j--) { - lp = (xfs_log_item_t *)ips[j]->i_itemp; + lp = &ips[j]->i_itemp->ili_item; if (lp && test_bit(XFS_LI_IN_AIL, &lp->li_flags)) try_lock++; } @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ xfs_lock_two_inodes( * the second lock. If we can't get it, we must release the first one * and try again. */ - lp = (xfs_log_item_t *)ip0->i_itemp; + lp = &ip0->i_itemp->ili_item; if (lp && test_bit(XFS_LI_IN_AIL, &lp->li_flags)) { if (!xfs_ilock_nowait(ip1, xfs_lock_inumorder(ip1_mode, 1))) { xfs_iunlock(ip0, ip0_mode); -- 2.20.1