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posix_types.h: Cleanup stale __NFDBITS and related definitions
authorJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:40:34 +0000 (10:40 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:31:39 +0000 (08:31 -0700)
commit27cd8f51344dcf4799c7a092c1797402b833126a
tree4af5fa7d852c6f73795dd0ea9508b86283fb009e
parentb6e9ffcdb09fbf28665e025aa31fda702689786c
posix_types.h: Cleanup stale __NFDBITS and related definitions

commit 8ded2bbc1845e19c771eb55209aab166ef011243 upstream.

Recently, glibc made a change to suppress sign-conversion warnings in
FD_SET (glibc commit ceb9e56b3d1).  This uncovered an issue with the
kernel's definition of __NFDBITS if applications #include
<linux/types.h> after including <sys/select.h>.  A build failure would
be seen when passing the -Werror=sign-compare and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
flags to gcc.

It was suggested that the kernel should either match the glibc
definition of __NFDBITS or remove that entirely.  The current in-kernel
uses of __NFDBITS can be replaced with BITS_PER_LONG, and there are no
uses of the related __FDELT and __FDMASK defines.  Given that, we'll
continue the cleanup that was started with commit 8b3d1cda4f5f
("posix_types: Remove fd_set macros") and drop the remaining unused
macros.

Additionally, linux/time.h has similar macros defined that expand to
nothing so we'll remove those at the same time.

Reported-by: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
[ .. and fix up whitespace as per akpm ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/mips/kernel/kspd.c
fs/exec.c
fs/select.c
include/linux/posix_types.h
include/linux/time.h
kernel/exit.c
security/selinux/hooks.c