From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Subject: [PATCH] proc: Remove cast from memory allocation
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:42:00 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1487745720-16967-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> (raw)
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 <me@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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2017-02-22 6:42 Tobin C. Harding [this message]
2017-07-25 21:06 ` Kees Cook
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