Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] audit: change unnecessary globals into statics

From: Paul Moore
Date: Mon Aug 17 2020 - 20:38:32 EST


On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 2:33 PM Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 8:35 AM Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Variables sig_pid, audit_sig_uid and audit_sig_sid
> > are only used in the audit.c file across the kernel
> > Hence it appears no reason for declaring them as globals
> > This patch removes their global declarations from the .h file
> > and change them into static in the .c file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/audit.c | 6 +++---
> > kernel/audit.h | 4 ----
> > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> Thanks Jules, this looks reasonable although I'm not going to merge
> them into audit/next until after the merge window closes. I'll send
> another reply once this has been merged.

... and I just merged this into audit/next, thanks Jules.

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