fs/ufs/super.c: remove unnecessary casting

Author: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>

Fix the following coccinelle warning:

  fs/ufs/super.c:1418:7-28: WARNING: casting value returned by memory allocation function to (struct ufs_inode_info *) is useless.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick 
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
---
 fs/ufs/super.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/fs/ufs/super.c b/fs/ufs/super.c
index da73801..e515e99 100644
--- a/fs/ufs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/super.c
@@ -1415,9 +1415,11 @@ static struct kmem_cache * ufs_inode_cachep;
 static struct inode *ufs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	struct ufs_inode_info *ei;
-	ei = (struct ufs_inode_info *)kmem_cache_alloc(ufs_inode_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
+
+	ei = kmem_cache_alloc(ufs_inode_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!ei)
 		return NULL;
+
 	ei->vfs_inode.i_version = 1;
 	return &ei->vfs_inode;
 }
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