Re: [PATCH 4/4] copy_signal cleanup: clean tty_audit_fork()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Dec 02 2009 - 09:22:21 EST


On 12/01, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
>
> Remove unneeded initialization in tty_audit_fork().
>
> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_audit.c b/drivers/char/tty_audit.c
> index ac16fbe..283a15b 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tty_audit.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tty_audit.c
> @@ -148,7 +148,6 @@ void tty_audit_fork(struct signal_struct *sig)
> spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
> sig->audit_tty = current->signal->audit_tty;
> spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
> - sig->tty_audit_buf = NULL;
> }

OK, but given that this function is "far" from copy_signal() path
and it is not inline, perhaps it makes sense to add the comment which
explains *sig must be zeroed, and the only caller is copy_signal().


Hmm. Off-topic, but why do we take ->siglock? ->audit_tty is boolean,
afaics ->siglock buys nothing.

Oleg.

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