On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Tobin C. Harding wrote:

> Coccinelle emits WARNING: casting value returned by memory allocation
> function to (struct ncp_inode_info *) is useless.
>
> Remove unnecessary cast.
>
> Changes since v1:
>  - Fix up typo

Changes since v1 goes below the ---.  When this ends up in the git
history, no one will care about the changes since v1, because v1 won't be
part of the history.

julia

>
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> Kernel built successfully with patch applied.
>
>  fs/ncpfs/inode.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ncpfs/inode.c b/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
> index 7eb89c2..7a9ed33 100644
> --- a/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache * ncp_inode_cachep;
>  static struct inode *ncp_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
>  {
>       struct ncp_inode_info *ei;
> -     ei = (struct ncp_inode_info *)kmem_cache_alloc(ncp_inode_cachep, 
> GFP_KERNEL);
> +     ei = kmem_cache_alloc(ncp_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!ei)
>               return NULL;
>       return &ei->vfs_inode;
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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