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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ericy@cais.com, jesper.juhl@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf CodingStyle cleanup and remove some pointless casts
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:26:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060423142648.6ef34b9f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604231858.15646.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here's a patch that does a CodingStyle cleanup of fs/binfmt_elf.c and also
> removes some pointless casts of kmalloc() return values in the same file.
> 

Much-needed.

> -	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHENT, sizeof (struct elf_phdr));
> +	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHENT, sizeof(struct elf_phdr));
>  	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHNUM, exec->e_phnum);
>  	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_BASE, interp_load_addr);
>  	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_FLAGS, 0);
>  	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_ENTRY, exec->e_entry);
> -	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_UID, (elf_addr_t) tsk->uid);
> -	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EUID, (elf_addr_t) tsk->euid);
> -	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_GID, (elf_addr_t) tsk->gid);
> -	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EGID, (elf_addr_t) tsk->egid);
> - 	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_SECURE, (elf_addr_t) security_bprm_secureexec(bprm));
> +	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_UID, (elf_addr_t)tsk->uid);
> +	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EUID, (elf_addr_t)tsk->euid);
> +	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_GID, (elf_addr_t)tsk->gid);
> +	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EGID, (elf_addr_t)tsk->egid);
> + 	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_SECURE, (elf_addr_t)security_bprm_secureexec(bprm));

The typecasting for NEW_AUX_ENT is random, ugly, irrational and
undesirable.  It's always u32 or unsigned long.  Perhaps as a followup
patch you could look at removing the unneeded casts? (hopefully that'll
be all of them)


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-23 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-23 16:58 [PATCH] binfmt_elf CodingStyle cleanup and remove some pointless casts Jesper Juhl
2006-04-23 21:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-04-24  7:15   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-04-24 17:32     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-04-24 20:32       ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-24 21:51         ` Jesper Juhl

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