lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-Id: <20071026.025029.00497274.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:50:29 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: rientjes@...gle.com Cc: adobriyan@...ru, torvalds@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] De-constify sched.h From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:42:30 -0700 (PDT) > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > 2) There is no such thing as const task_struct. Anyone who think otherwise > > deserves compiler warning. > > > > A 'const struct task_struct *' can be used as an annotation to mean that > no member of the struct is modified through that pointer, so it's > perfectly acceptable to qualify formals in that manner. But in one of the cases he un-const's the code does modify the object through the pointer. At least that one should be reverted since the annotation is wrong. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists