linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc: make proc entry's len "unsigned int"

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Date:	Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:10:33 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] proc: make proc entry's len "unsigned int"

Space is not really conserved, because of natural alignment for the next field.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 fs/proc/generic.c       |    8 ++++----
 include/linux/proc_fs.h |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 DEFINE_SPINLOCK(proc_subdir_lock);
 
-static int proc_match(int len, const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *de)
+static int proc_match(unsigned int len, const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *de)
 {
 	if (de->namelen != len)
 		return 0;
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int __xlate_proc_name(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry **ret,
 {
 	const char     		*cp = name, *next;
 	struct proc_dir_entry	*de;
-	int			len;
+	unsigned int		len;
 
 	de = *ret;
 	if (!de)
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *__proc_create(struct proc_dir_entry **parent,
 {
 	struct proc_dir_entry *ent = NULL;
 	const char *fn = name;
-	int len;
+	unsigned int len;
 
 	/* make sure name is valid */
 	if (!name || !strlen(name)) goto out;
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent)
 	struct proc_dir_entry **p;
 	struct proc_dir_entry *de = NULL;
 	const char *fn = name;
-	int len;
+	unsigned int len;
 
 	spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 	if (__xlate_proc_name(name, &parent, &fn) != 0) {
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ typedef	int (write_proc_t)(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
 
 struct proc_dir_entry {
 	unsigned int low_ino;
-	unsigned short namelen;
+	unsigned int namelen;
 	const char *name;
 	mode_t mode;
 	nlink_t nlink;
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