linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/43] userns: Remove unnecessary cast to struct user

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Date:	Sat,  7 Apr 2012 22:15:00 -0700
From:	"\"Eric W. Beiderman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: [PATCH 04/43] userns: Remove unnecessary cast to struct user_struct when copying cred->user.

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

In struct cred the user member is and has always been declared struct user_struct *user.
At most a constant struct cred will have a constant pointer to non-constant user_struct
so remove this unnecessary cast.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 kernel/sys.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index e7006eb..f7a4351 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(setpriority, int, which, int, who, int, niceval)
 			} while_each_pid_thread(pgrp, PIDTYPE_PGID, p);
 			break;
 		case PRIO_USER:
-			user = (struct user_struct *) cred->user;
+			user = cred->user;
 			if (!who)
 				who = cred->uid;
 			else if ((who != cred->uid) &&
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getpriority, int, which, int, who)
 			} while_each_pid_thread(pgrp, PIDTYPE_PGID, p);
 			break;
 		case PRIO_USER:
-			user = (struct user_struct *) cred->user;
+			user = cred->user;
 			if (!who)
 				who = cred->uid;
 			else if ((who != cred->uid) &&
-- 
1.7.2.5

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