Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:19:23 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [CRED bug?] 2.6.29-rc3 don't survive on stress workload |
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* David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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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