Re: [CRED bug?] 2.6.29-rc3 don't survive on stress workload

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Feb 11 2009 - 12:19:58 EST



* David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > include/linux/cred.h: In function 'get_cred':
> > include/linux/cred.h:188: warning: passing argument 1 of 'get_new_cred' discards
> > qualifiers from pointer target type
>
> This is a known compiler bug in some versions of gcc. It fails to observe the
> fact that a const pointer is cast to the equivalent non-const pointer in
> get_cred():
>
> static inline const struct cred *get_cred(const struct cred *cred)
> {
> return get_new_cred((struct cred *) cred);
> }

If by 'some versions of gcc' you mean 'gcc 4.2.2' then yes. And in any case
it's a very annoying warning.

Ingo
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