linux-kernel - [PATCH RESEND v3 02/24] ptrace: cleanup ptrace

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Message-Id: <1285838880-4977-3-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:27:37 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RESEND v3 02/24] ptrace: cleanup ptrace_request()

Use new 'datavp' and 'datalp' variables to remove unnecesary castings.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/ptrace.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index f838afe..dded1d6 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -563,6 +563,8 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 {
 	int ret = -EIO;
 	siginfo_t siginfo;
+	void __user *datavp = (void __user *) data;
+	unsigned long __user *datalp = datavp;
 
 	switch (request) {
 	case PTRACE_PEEKTEXT:
@@ -579,19 +581,17 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 		ret = ptrace_setoptions(child, data);
 		break;
 	case PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG:
-		ret = put_user(child->ptrace_message, (unsigned long __user *) data);
+		ret = put_user(child->ptrace_message, datalp);
 		break;
 
 	case PTRACE_GETSIGINFO:
 		ret = ptrace_getsiginfo(child, &siginfo);
 		if (!ret)
-			ret = copy_siginfo_to_user((siginfo_t __user *) data,
-						   &siginfo);
+			ret = copy_siginfo_to_user(datavp, &siginfo);
 		break;
 
 	case PTRACE_SETSIGINFO:
-		if (copy_from_user(&siginfo, (siginfo_t __user *) data,
-				   sizeof siginfo))
+		if (copy_from_user(&siginfo, datavp, sizeof siginfo))
 			ret = -EFAULT;
 		else
 			ret = ptrace_setsiginfo(child, &siginfo);
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 		}
 		mmput(mm);
 
-		ret = put_user(tmp, (unsigned long __user *) data);
+		ret = put_user(tmp, datalp);
 		break;
 	}
 #endif
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 	case PTRACE_SETREGSET:
 	{
 		struct iovec kiov;
-		struct iovec __user *uiov = (struct iovec __user *) data;
+		struct iovec __user *uiov = datavp;
 
 		if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uiov, sizeof(*uiov)))
 			return -EFAULT;
-- 
1.7.2.2

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