Re: [PATCH v2 02/17] security: make security_file_set_fowner, f_setown and __f_setown void return

Dmitry Kasatkin
2014-10-07T17:34:59Z

On 7 October 2014 20:17, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:11:42PM +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
>> If file_set_fowner op is now type of "void", how you can actually
>> return the value?
>> I think compiler must give error. How could you compile it?
>
> Returning void values is a GNU extension. I've seen it in a few
> places in the kernel. Although in general I'd prefer it we'd remove
> it (and have the compiler warn about it).
>

Cool. There were patches around to use LLVM as well.
Will it work there?

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Thanks,
Dmitry