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

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