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 <m...@tobin.cc> --- 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