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From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, keescook@chromium.org,
	serge.hallyn@canonical.com, gorcunov@openvz.org,
	ebiederm@xmission.com,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel: arg2 is unsigned long which is never < 0
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:44:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <511217F3.6050800@asianux.com> (raw)


  arg2 will never < 0, for its type is 'unsigned long'

  so delete the waste code.


Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
---
 kernel/sys.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 24d1ef5..568b9ca 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2027,7 +2027,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
 			error = get_dumpable(me->mm);
 			break;
 		case PR_SET_DUMPABLE:
-			if (arg2 < 0 || arg2 > 1) {
+			if (arg2 > 1) {
 				error = -EINVAL;
 				break;
 			}
-- 
1.7.7.6

             reply	other threads:[~2013-02-06  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-06  8:44 Chen Gang [this message]
2013-02-06  8:56 ` [PATCH] kernel: arg2 is unsigned long which is never < 0 Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-06 10:36   ` Chen Gang
2013-02-06 15:24     ` Serge Hallyn
2013-02-07  1:54       ` Chen Gang
2013-02-06 15:35     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-06 19:41     ` Kees Cook
2013-02-07  1:38       ` Chen Gang

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