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/proc/generic.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index b7f268e..f599d43 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry *proc_symlink(const char *name,
if (ent) {
ent->data = kmalloc((ent->size=strlen(dest))+1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (ent->data) {
- strcpy((char*)ent->data,dest);
+ strcpy(ent->data, dest);
if (proc_register(parent, ent) < 0) {
kfree(ent->data);
kfree(ent);
--
1.9.1