From: Rusty Russell Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:19:47 +0000 (+1030) Subject: cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALL.: x86 X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=101aaca1f32d9923331ddc63a7a72b3a7f934c02;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALL.: x86 Impact: cleanup (Thanks to Al Viro for reminding me of this, via Ingo) CPU_MASK_ALL is the (deprecated) "all bits set" cpumask, defined as so: #define CPU_MASK_ALL (cpumask_t) { { ... } } Taking the address of such a temporary is questionable at best, unfortunately 321a8e9d (cpumask: add CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR macro) added CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR: #define CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR (&CPU_MASK_ALL) Which formalizes this practice. One day gcc could bite us over this usage (though we seem to have gotten away with it so far). So replace everywhere which used &CPU_MASK_ALL or CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR with the modern "cpu_all_mask" (a real const struct cpumask *), and remove CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR altogether. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Reported-by: Al Viro Cc: Mike Travis --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c index 19588f2770e..1322f5409e2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static int es7000_apic_id_registered(void) static const cpumask_t *target_cpus_cluster(void) { - return &CPU_MASK_ALL; + return cpu_all_mask; } static const cpumask_t *es7000_target_cpus(void) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/numaq_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/numaq_32.c index ba2fc646553..e4ce98af8c7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/numaq_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/numaq_32.c @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static inline void numaq_smp_callin_clear_local_apic(void) static inline const cpumask_t *numaq_target_cpus(void) { - return &CPU_MASK_ALL; + return cpu_all_mask; } static inline unsigned long