linux-kernel - [PATCH] Fix usage of true and false as field names in struct taint

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Date:   Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:56:38 -0500
From:   Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix usage of true and false as field names in struct taint_flag

commit 7fd8329ba502ef76dd91db561c7aed696b2c7720
Author: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 21 13:47:22 2016 +0200

    taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling

Contains this chunk:

--- a/include/linux/kernel.h

+struct taint_flag {
+       char true;      /* character printed when tainted */
+       char false;     /* character printed when not tainted */
+       bool module;    /* also show as a per-module taint flag */
+};

and hilarity ensues when an out-of-tree module has this:

# ifndef true
#  define true  (1)
# endif
# ifndef false
#  define false (0)
# endif

Change the field names to not shadow something likely to be used
by third-party modules.

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>

---
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 56aec84237ad..420d4b87feb0 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -514,8 +514,8 @@ extern enum system_states {
 #define TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT		16
 
 struct taint_flag {
-	char true;	/* character printed when tainted */
-	char false;	/* character printed when not tainted */
+	char tainted;	/* character printed when tainted */
+	char untainted;	/* character printed when not tainted */
 	bool module;	/* also show as a per-module taint flag */
 };
 
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index f7482db0f843..6a0434de5dbd 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ static size_t module_flags_taint(struct module *mod, char *buf)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT; i++) {
 		if (taint_flags[i].module && test_bit(i, &mod->taints))
-			buf[l++] = taint_flags[i].true;
+			buf[l++] = taint_flags[i].tainted;
 	}
 
 	return l;
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index c51edaa04fce..e02da0928910 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ const char *print_tainted(void)
 		for (i = 0; i < TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT; i++) {
 			const struct taint_flag *t = &taint_flags[i];
 			*s++ = test_bit(i, &tainted_mask) ?
-					t->true : t->false;
+					t->tainted : t->untainted;
 		}
 		*s = 0;
 	} else