linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] kernel/fork.c: Simplifying a snippet of code.

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Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:09:35 -0300
From:	"Raphael S.Carvalho" <raphael.scarv@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Raphael S.Carvalho" <raphael.scarv@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] kernel/fork.c: Simplifying a snippet of code.

Just sending this patch in order to simplify the code.
However, I'm not sure if the code was written in that way due to specific reasons.

Signed-off-by: Raphael S.Carvalho <raphael.scarv@...il.com>
---
 kernel/fork.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c535f33..237204d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1341,9 +1341,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 	}
 
 	p->pid = pid_nr(pid);
-	p->tgid = p->pid;
-	if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
-		p->tgid = current->tgid;
+	p->tgid = (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) ? current->tgid : p->pid;
 
 	p->set_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
 	/*
-- 
1.7.2.5

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