[PATCH] Suppress deprecated f_maxcount in 'struct file'

[Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>]

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Andrew Morton a écrit :
> Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
> 
>>Considering :
>>
>>[root@dada1 linux-2.6.13-rc6]# find .|xargs grep f_maxcount
>>./fs/file_table.c:      f->f_maxcount = INT_MAX;
>>./fs/read_write.c:      if (unlikely(count > file->f_maxcount))
>>./include/linux/fs.h:   size_t                  f_maxcount;
>>
>>
>>I was wondering if f_maxcount has a real use these days...
> 
> 
> No, I guess we can just stick a hard-wired INT_MAX in there.
> 
> 

OK here is a patch doing the hard wiring then :)

* struct file cleanup : f_maxcount has an unique value (INT_MAX). Just use the hard-wired value.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>


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diff -Nru linux-2.6.13-rc6/fs/file_table.c linux-2.6.13-rc6-ed/fs/file_table.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc6/fs/file_table.c	2005-08-07 20:18:56.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-ed/fs/file_table.c	2005-08-19 23:51:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@
 	rwlock_init(&f->f_owner.lock);
 	/* f->f_version: 0 */
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&f->f_list);
-	f->f_maxcount = INT_MAX;
 	return f;
 
 over:
diff -Nru linux-2.6.13-rc6/fs/read_write.c linux-2.6.13-rc6-ed/fs/read_write.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc6/fs/read_write.c	2005-08-07 20:18:56.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-ed/fs/read_write.c	2005-08-19 23:51:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
 	struct inode *inode;
 	loff_t pos;
 
-	if (unlikely(count > file->f_maxcount))
+	if (unlikely(count > INT_MAX))
 		goto Einval;
 	pos = *ppos;
 	if (unlikely((pos < 0) || (loff_t) (pos + count) < 0))
diff -Nru linux-2.6.13-rc6/include/linux/fs.h linux-2.6.13-rc6-ed/include/linux/fs.h
--- linux-2.6.13-rc6/include/linux/fs.h	2005-08-07 20:18:56.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-ed/include/linux/fs.h	2005-08-19 23:51:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -594,7 +594,6 @@
 	unsigned int		f_uid, f_gid;
 	struct file_ra_state	f_ra;
 
-	size_t			f_maxcount;
 	unsigned long		f_version;
 	void			*f_security;