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    [PATCH] remove a redundant variable in sys_prctl() · 0730ded5
    Jesper Juhl authored
    The patch removes a redundant variable `sig' from sys_prctl().
    
    For some reason, when sys_prctl is called with option == PR_SET_PDEATHSIG
    then the value of arg2 is assigned to an int variable named sig.  Then sig
    is tested with valid_signal() and later used to set the value of
    current->pdeath_signal .
    
    There is no reason to use this intermediate variable since valid_signal()
    takes a unsigned long argument, so it can handle being passed arg2
    directly, and if the call to valid_signal is OK, then we know the value of
    arg2 is in the range zero to _NSIG and thus it'll easily fit in a plain int
    and thus there's no problem assigning it later to current->pdeath_signal
    (which is an int).
    
    The patch gets rid of the pointless variable `sig'.
    This reduces the size of kernel/sys.o in 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 by 32 bytes on my
    system.
    
    Patch has been compile tested, boot tested, and just to make damn sure I
    didn't break anything I wrote a quick test app that calls
    prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG ...) with the entire range of values for a
    unsigned long, and it behaves as expected with and without the patch.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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