Re: [PATCH] VFS: Sanity check mount flags passed tochange_mnt_propagation()

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 04:03:18PM -0400, Valerie Aurora wrote:
> +	/* Fail if any non-propagation flags are set */
> +	if (type & ~(MS_SHARED | MS_PRIVATE | MS_SLAVE | MS_UNBINDABLE))
> +		return 0;
> +	/* Only one propagation flag should be set */
> +	if (((type & (MS_SHARED)) && (type & ~MS_SHARED)) ||
> +	    ((type & (MS_PRIVATE)) && (type & ~MS_PRIVATE)) ||
> +	    ((type & (MS_SLAVE)) && (type & ~MS_SLAVE)) ||
> +	    ((type & (MS_UNBINDABLE)) && (type & ~MS_UNBINDABLE)))
> +		return 0;

Hrm.  I think we can do this a bit more pithily.

	/* Only one propagation flag should be set, and no others */
	if (hweight32(type) != 1 &&
	    (type & ~(MS_SHARED | MS_PRIVATE | MS_SLAVE | MS_UNBINDABLE))
		return 0;

Too clever?

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