Coccinelle emits this warning:
WARNING: casting value returned by memory allocation function to (struct proc_inode *) is useless.
Remove unnecessary cast.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487745720-16967-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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;