From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: USER_DS vs oldfs
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:22:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040929122211.GF16153@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
A common idiom in the compat code is:
old_fs = get_fs();
set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
ret = sys_fcntl(fd, (cmd == F_GETLK64) ? F_GETLK :
((cmd == F_SETLK64) ? F_SETLK : F_SETLKW),
(unsigned long)&f);
set_fs(old_fs);
Surely we know that the current 'fs' is USER_DS and so we could simply do:
set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
ret = sys_fcntl(fd, (cmd == F_GETLK64) ? F_GETLK :
((cmd == F_SETLK64) ? F_SETLK : F_SETLKW),
(unsigned long)&f);
set_fs(USER_DS);
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