This patch does away with cast on void * and the if as it is unnecessary.
The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used for making the change:
@r@
expression x;
void* e;
type T;
identifier f;
@@
(
*((T *)e)
|
((T *)x)[...]
|
((T *)x)->f
|
- (T *)
e
)
Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
---
fs/kernfs/dir.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index 1c77193..85738f4 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static unsigned int kernfs_name_hash(const char *name, const void *ns)
unsigned int len = strlen(name);
while (len--)
hash = partial_name_hash(*name++, hash);
- hash = (end_name_hash(hash) ^ hash_ptr((void *)ns, 31));
+ hash = (end_name_hash(hash) ^ hash_ptr(ns, 31));
hash &= 0x7fffffffU;
/* Reserve hash numbers 0, 1 and INT_MAX for magic directory entries */
if (hash < 2)
--
1.9.1