Re: [PATCH] sys_personality: Streamline code in sys_personality()

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Tue Nov 26 2019 - 06:28:25 EST


On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 05:40:45PM +0800, Wang ShaoBo wrote:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1 in kernel/exec_domain.c looks like verbose,
> ksys_personality() can make it more concise.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@xxxxxxxxxx>

FWIW, this looks fine to me:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

I'm not sure why I didn't do this initially; adding Christoph in case he
has any comments.

Mark.

> ---
> kernel/exec_domain.c | 7 +------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/exec_domain.c b/kernel/exec_domain.c
> index 33f07c5f2515..f7a0512ddc23 100644
> --- a/kernel/exec_domain.c
> +++ b/kernel/exec_domain.c
> @@ -37,10 +37,5 @@ module_init(proc_execdomains_init);
>
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(personality, unsigned int, personality)
> {
> - unsigned int old = current->personality;
> -
> - if (personality != 0xffffffff)
> - set_personality(personality);
> -
> - return old;
> + return ksys_personality(personality);
> }
> --
> 2.20.1
>