linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 03/20] signal: make may_ptrace

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Message-Id: <20180528215355.16119-4-christian@brauner.io>
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 23:53:38 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     ebiederm@...ssion.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        mingo@...nel.org, james.morris@...rosoft.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, peterz@...radead.org, sds@...ho.nsa.gov,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        oleg@...hat.com, Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Subject: [PATCH v1 03/20] signal: make may_ptrace_stop() return bool

may_ptrace_stop() already behaves like a boolean function. Let's actually
declare it as such too.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
---
v0->v1:
* patch unchanged
---
 kernel/signal.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 6c71d6b8d2b8..bc750fb4ddcc 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1889,10 +1889,10 @@ static void do_notify_parent_cldstop(struct task_struct *tsk,
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sighand->siglock, flags);
 }
 
-static inline int may_ptrace_stop(void)
+static inline bool may_ptrace_stop(void)
 {
 	if (!likely(current->ptrace))
-		return 0;
+		return false;
 	/*
 	 * Are we in the middle of do_coredump?
 	 * If so and our tracer is also part of the coredump stopping
@@ -1906,11 +1906,11 @@ static inline int may_ptrace_stop(void)
 	 * block in TASK_TRACED. But PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT can be reported
 	 * after SIGKILL was already dequeued.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(current->mm->core_state) &&
-	    unlikely(current->mm == current->parent->mm))
-		return 0;
+	if (likely(!current->mm->core_state ||
+		   current->mm != current->parent->mm))
+		return false;
 
-	return 1;
+	return true;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.17.0