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 <himangi...@gmail.com> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr> --- 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/