+ proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation.patch added to -mm tree

+ proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: fs/proc/inode.c:  remove cast from memory allocation
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation.patch

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From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Subject: fs/proc/inode.c:  remove cast from memory allocation

Coccinelle emits 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>
---

 fs/proc/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/proc/inode.c~proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation fs/proc/inode.c
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c~proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation
+++ a/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static struct inode *proc_alloc_inode(st
 	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;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from me@tobin.cc are

proc-remove-cast-from-memory-allocation.patch