Re: [PATCH v5 03/11] mm/mempolicy: refactor sanitize_mpol_flags for reuse

From: Gregory Price
Date: Wed Dec 27 2023 - 10:45:46 EST


On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 04:39:29PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Gregory Price <gourry.memverge@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > + * fields and return just the mode in mode_arg and flags in flags.
> > + */
> > +static inline int sanitize_mpol_flags(int *mode_arg, unsigned short *flags)
> > +{
> > + unsigned short mode = (*mode_arg & ~MPOL_MODE_FLAGS);
> > +
> > + *flags = *mode_arg & MPOL_MODE_FLAGS;
> > + *mode_arg = mode;
>
> It appears that it's unnecessary to introduce a local variable to split
> mode/flags. Just reuse the original code?
>

ack

~Gregory