Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf CodingStyle cleanup and remove some pointless casts

[Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On Monday 24 April 2006 09:15, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 4/23/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > 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)
> >
> Sure, I'll take a look at that this evening, hopefully that'll mean a
> follow-up patch in aproximately 12-16hrs.
> 
I got rid of all but one cast. 

We still need to cast u_platform from pointer to integer or gcc will yell 
at us. But, I don't see why we should first cast it to `unsigned long' and 
then to elf_addr_t, so I removed the `unsigned long' cast.

Patch applies on top of the previous one.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---

 fs/binfmt_elf.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.17-rc2-git4/fs/binfmt_elf.c.old	2006-04-24 19:21:14.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc2-git4/fs/binfmt_elf.c	2006-04-24 19:20:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -177,10 +177,11 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *b
 	}
 
 	/* Create the ELF interpreter info */
-	elf_info = (elf_addr_t *) current->mm->saved_auxv;
+	elf_info = (elf_addr_t *)current->mm->saved_auxv;
 #define NEW_AUX_ENT(id, val) \
 	do { \
-		elf_info[ei_index++] = id; elf_info[ei_index++] = val; \
+		elf_info[ei_index++] = id; \
+		elf_info[ei_index++] = val; \
 	} while (0)
 
 #ifdef ARCH_DLINFO
@@ -199,17 +200,16 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *b
 	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, tsk->uid);
+	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EUID, tsk->euid);
+	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_GID, tsk->gid);
+	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EGID, tsk->egid);
+ 	NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_SECURE, security_bprm_secureexec(bprm));
 	if (k_platform) {
-		NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PLATFORM,
-			(elf_addr_t)(unsigned long)u_platform);
+		NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PLATFORM, (elf_addr_t)u_platform);
 	}
 	if (bprm->interp_flags & BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD) {
-		NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EXECFD, (elf_addr_t)bprm->interp_data);
+		NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EXECFD, bprm->interp_data);
 	}
 #undef NEW_AUX_ENT
 	/* AT_NULL is zero; clear the rest too */