linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm] -funsigned-char, namei: delete cast in lookup_one

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Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:56:20 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -mm] -funsigned-char, namei: delete cast in
 lookup_one_common()

Cast to unsigned int doesn't do anything because two comparisons are
a) for equality, and
b) both '/' and '\0' have non-negative values.

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

 fs/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2657,7 +2657,7 @@ static int lookup_one_common(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 	}
 
 	while (len--) {
-		unsigned int c = *(const unsigned char *)name++;
+		char c = *name++;
 		if (c == '/' || c == '\0')
 			return -EACCES;
 	}