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Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] procfs: use an enum for possible hidepid values

From Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] procfs: use an enum for possible hidepid values
Date 2017-02-15 01:40 +0100
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:16:30 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Lafcadio Wluiki <wluikil@gmail.com>
> >
> > Previously, the hidepid parameter was checked by comparing literal
> > integers 0, 1, 2. Let's add a proper enum for this, to make the checking
> > more expressive:
> >
> >         0 ___ HIDEPID_OFF
> >         1 ___ HIDEPID_NO_ACCESS
> >         2 ___ HIDEPID_INVISIBLE
> >
> > This changes the internal labelling only, the userspace-facing interface
> > remains unmodified, and still works with literal integers 0, 1, 2.
> >
> > No functional changes.
> >
> > Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Acked-by: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Lafcadio Wluiki <wluikil@gmail.com>
> 
> Andrew, can you take this? It's a sensible cleanup to drop literals in
> favor of defines.

Sure.

Djalal, I converted your acked-by into a signed-off-by, as described in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches (soon to become
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst).

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Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] procfs: use an enum for possible hidepid values Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-02-13 23:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] procfs: use an enum for possible hidepid values Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-02-15 01:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] procfs: use an enum for possible hidepid values Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 10:00 +0100

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