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[PATCH 2/4] fs: Cocci spatch "alloc_cast"

From Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 2/4] fs: Cocci spatch "alloc_cast"
Date 2017-09-21 08:50 +0200
Message-ID <us3t7-5H4-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Remove casting the values returned by memory allocation functions like
kmalloc, kzalloc, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc."
Found by coccinelle spatch "api/alloc/alloc_cast.cocci"

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ v9fs_blank_wstat(struct p9_wstat *wstat)
 struct inode *v9fs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	struct v9fs_inode *v9inode;
-	v9inode = (struct v9fs_inode *)kmem_cache_alloc(v9fs_inode_cache,
+	v9inode = kmem_cache_alloc(v9fs_inode_cache,
 							GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!v9inode)
 		return NULL;

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