From: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: signal: make kill_as_cred_perm() return bool kill_as_cred_perm() already behaves like a boolean function. Let's actually declare it as such too. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180602103653.18181-3-christian@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Morris <james.morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/signal.c~signal-make-kill_as_cred_perm-return-bool +++ a/kernel/signal.c @@ -1339,14 +1339,15 @@ static int kill_proc_info(int sig, struc return error; } -static int kill_as_cred_perm(const struct cred *cred, - struct task_struct *target) +static inline bool kill_as_cred_perm(const struct cred *cred, + struct task_struct *target) { const struct cred *pcred = __task_cred(target); - if (!uid_eq(cred->euid, pcred->suid) && !uid_eq(cred->euid, pcred->uid) && - !uid_eq(cred->uid, pcred->suid) && !uid_eq(cred->uid, pcred->uid)) - return 0; - return 1; + + return uid_eq(cred->euid, pcred->suid) || + uid_eq(cred->euid, pcred->uid) || + uid_eq(cred->uid, pcred->suid) || + uid_eq(cred->uid, pcred->uid); } /* like kill_pid_info(), but doesn't use uid/euid of "current" */ _