The patch titled
Subject: fs/proc/inode.c: remove cast from memory allocation
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation.patch
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From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: fs/proc/inode.c: remove cast from memory allocation
Coccinelle emits WARNING: casting value returned by memory allocation
function to (struct proc_inode *) is useless.
Remove unnecessary cast.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487745720-16967-1-git-send-email-me@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/proc/inode.c~proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation fs/proc/inode.c
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c~proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation
+++ a/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static struct inode *proc_alloc_inode(st
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;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from me@xxxxxxxx are
proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation.patch
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