On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 04:26:32PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:02:35PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 01:43:20PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > > > +static int zero; > > > +static int one = 1; > > > > !!! > > > > And these can't even be const without a cast. Yuk. > > > > (Not your fault though, but it would be nice to have a proc_dobool() to > > avoid this.) > > I had the same reaction. Maybe for another patch sanitising this pattern > across the kernel. That's actually already happening (via -mm tree last I looked). tl;dr: it ends up using a cast hidden in a macro. It's in linux-next already along with a checkpatch.pl addition to yell about doing what's being done here. ;) https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190430180111.10688-1-mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx/#r -- Kees Cook
