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ncpfs: Remove cast from memory allocation

PATCH New Tobin C. Harding 1 participant 1 message Feb 22, 2017 Kernel janitors

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PATCH v3 1/1 ncpfs: Remove cast from memory allocation

Coccinelle emits WARNING: casting value returned by memory allocation function to (struct ncp_inode_info *) is useless.

Remove unnecessary cast.

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Changes since v2:
- Put version amendment comments in correct place within patch email.

Changes since v1:
- Fix up typo

Kernel built successfully with patch applied.

 fs/ncpfs/inode.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
fs/ncpfs/inode.c +1 -1
index 7eb89c2..7a9ed33 100644
@@ -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;
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