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[PATCH 3/4] VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): Cocci spatch "alloc_cast"

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  [PATCH 3/4] VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): Cocci spatch  "alloc_cast" Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> - 2017-09-21 08:50 +0200

#1736401 — [PATCH 3/4] VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): Cocci spatch "alloc_cast"

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/ncpfs/inode.c b/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
--- a/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache * ncp_inode_cac
 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;

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