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* [merged mm-nonmm-stable] lib-glob-clean-up-bool-abuse-in-pointer-arithmetic.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-03-28  4:25 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-03-28  4:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mm-commits, akpm, objecting, akpm


The quilt patch titled
     Subject: lib/glob: clean up "bool abuse" in pointer arithmetic
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     lib-glob-clean-up-bool-abuse-in-pointer-arithmetic.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
Subject: lib/glob: clean up "bool abuse" in pointer arithmetic
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 20:38:45 +0000

Replace the implicit 'bool' to 'int' conversion with an explicit ternary
operator.  This makes the pointer arithmetic clearer and avoids relying on
boolean memory representation for logic flow.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260301203845.2617217-1-objecting@objecting.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/glob.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/glob.c~lib-glob-clean-up-bool-abuse-in-pointer-arithmetic
+++ a/lib/glob.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ bool __pure glob_match(char const *pat,
 			if (c == '\0')	/* No possible match */
 				return false;
 			bool match = false, inverted = (*pat == '!');
-			char const *class = pat + inverted;
+			char const *class = inverted ? pat + 1 : pat;
 			unsigned char a = *class++;
 
 			/*
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from objecting@objecting.org are

mm-damon-core-document-damos_commit_dests-failure-semantics.patch
lib-maple_tree-fix-swapped-arguments-in-mas_safe_pivot-call.patch
lib-idr-fix-ida_find_first_range-missing-ids-across-chunk-boundaries.patch


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