On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 02:05:35AM -0500, Gregory Price wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 04:39:29PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > > Gregory Price <gourry.memverge@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > + unsigned short mode = (*mode_arg & ~MPOL_MODE_FLAGS); > > > + > > > + *flags = *mode_arg & MPOL_MODE_FLAGS; > > > + *mode_arg = mode; > > > > It appears that it's unnecessary to introduce a local variable to split > > mode/flags. Just reuse the original code? > > Revisiting during fixes: Note the change from int to short. I chose to make this explicit because validate_mpol_flags takes a short. I'm fairly sure changing it back throws a truncation warning. ~Gregroy