From: Andrew Morton ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" #34: FILE: fs/buffer.c:3203: + struct buffer_head * bh = (struct buffer_head *)data; total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 34 lines checked Your patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches (also, remove unneeded cast-of-void*) Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/buffer.c~bufferhead-revert-constructor-removal-checkpatch-fixes fs/buffer.c --- a/fs/buffer.c~bufferhead-revert-constructor-removal-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/fs/buffer.c @@ -3200,7 +3200,7 @@ static int buffer_cpu_notify(struct noti static void init_buffer_head(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *data) { - struct buffer_head * bh = (struct buffer_head *)data; + struct buffer_head *bh = data; memset(bh, 0, sizeof(*bh)); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bh->b_assoc_buffers); _