linux-kernel - [PATCH] Fix missing parens in set

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Message-ID: <20061109134632.GA17179@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:46:32 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix missing parens in set_personality()

If you call set_personality() with an expression such as:

	set_personality(foo ? PERS_FOO1 : PERS_FOO2);

then this evaluates to:

	((current->personality == foo ? PERS_FOO1 : PERS_FOO2) ? ...

which is obviously not the intended result.  Add the missing parents
to ensure this gets evaluated as expected:

	((current->personality == (foo ? PERS_FOO1 : PERS_FOO2)) ? ...

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/include/linux/personality.h b/include/linux/personality.h
index bf4cf20..012cd55 100644
--- a/include/linux/personality.h
+++ b/include/linux/personality.h
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ #define get_personality		(current->perso
  * Change personality of the currently running process.
  */
 #define set_personality(pers) \
-	((current->personality == pers) ? 0 : __set_personality(pers))
+	((current->personality == (pers)) ? 0 : __set_personality(pers))
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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