Re: [PATCH] CRED: fix compilation warning in function 'get_cred'

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 17:20:11 EST


Hannes Eder <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fix to following warning by introducing a temporary variable:
>
> include/linux/cred.h: In function 'get_cred':
> include/linux/cred.h:187: warning: passing argument 1 of
> 'get_new_cred' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Interesting. I believe that's a compiler bug. Explicitly casting away the
const should avoid this warning.

David
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