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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:19:31 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRED: fix compilation warning in function 'get_cred'
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To: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
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Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net> wrote:

> Fix to following warning by introducing a temporary variable:
> 
> include/linux/cred.h: In function 'get_cred':
> include/linux/cred.h:187: warning: passing argument 1 of
> 'get_new_cred' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Interesting.  I believe that's a compiler bug.  Explicitly casting away the
const should avoid this warning.

David