Fix to following warning by introducing a temporary variable: include/linux/cred.h: In function 'get_cred': include/linux/cred.h:187: warning: passing argument 1 of 'get_new_cred' discards qualifiers from pointer target type Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- With -O2 the same code as for the original function is generated. include/linux/cred.h | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h index 26c1ab1..2ab8cf7 100644 --- a/include/linux/cred.h +++ b/include/linux/cred.h @@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ static inline struct cred *get_new_cred(struct cred *cred) */ static inline const struct cred *get_cred(const struct cred *cred) { - return get_new_cred((struct cred *) cred); + struct cred *non_const_cred = (struct cred *) cred; + return get_new_cred(non_const_cred); } /** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html