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authorJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>2012-07-25 10:40:34 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-26 13:36:43 -0700
commit8ded2bbc1845e19c771eb55209aab166ef011243 (patch)
tree9ab400cdd407a9426fdfcc3432d7c0e19a0607ed /kernel
parent4cb38750d49010ae72e718d46605ac9ba5a851b4 (diff)
downloadlinux-8ded2bbc1845e19c771eb55209aab166ef011243.tar.gz
posix_types.h: Cleanup stale __NFDBITS and related definitions
Recently, glibc made a change to suppress sign-conversion warnings in
FD_SET (glibc commit ceb9e56b3d1).  This uncovered an issue with the
kernel's definition of __NFDBITS if applications #include
<linux/types.h> after including <sys/select.h>.  A build failure would
be seen when passing the -Werror=sign-compare and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
flags to gcc.

It was suggested that the kernel should either match the glibc
definition of __NFDBITS or remove that entirely.  The current in-kernel
uses of __NFDBITS can be replaced with BITS_PER_LONG, and there are no
uses of the related __FDELT and __FDMASK defines.  Given that, we'll
continue the cleanup that was started with commit 8b3d1cda4f5f
("posix_types: Remove fd_set macros") and drop the remaining unused
macros.

Additionally, linux/time.h has similar macros defined that expand to
nothing so we'll remove those at the same time.

Reported-by: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
[ .. and fix up whitespace as per akpm ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index d17f6c4ddfa9..f65345f9e5bb 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ static void close_files(struct files_struct * files)
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	for (;;) {
 		unsigned long set;
-		i = j * __NFDBITS;
+		i = j * BITS_PER_LONG;
 		if (i >= fdt->max_fds)
 			break;
 		set = fdt->open_fds[j++];