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[v3,03/20] fsnotify: return non const from fsnotify_data_inode()

Message ID 20200708111156.24659-3-amir73il@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [v3,01/20] fsnotify: Rearrange fast path to minimise overhead when there is no watcher | expand

Commit Message

Amir Goldstein July 8, 2020, 11:11 a.m. UTC 
Return non const inode pointer from fsnotify_data_inode().
None of the fsnotify hooks pass const inode pointer as data and
callers often need to cast to a non const pointer.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c    | 2 +-
 include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
index 85eda539b35f..d9fc83dd994a 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@  static struct inode *fanotify_fid_inode(struct inode *to_tell, u32 event_mask,
 	if (event_mask & ALL_FSNOTIFY_DIRENT_EVENTS)
 		return to_tell;
 
-	return (struct inode *)fsnotify_data_inode(data, data_type);
+	return fsnotify_data_inode(data, data_type);
 }
 
 struct fanotify_event *fanotify_alloc_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 1626fa7d10ff..97300f3b8ff0 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -220,12 +220,11 @@  enum fsnotify_data_type {
 	FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE,
 };
 
-static inline const struct inode *fsnotify_data_inode(const void *data,
-						      int data_type)
+static inline struct inode *fsnotify_data_inode(const void *data, int data_type)
 {
 	switch (data_type) {
 	case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE:
-		return data;
+		return (struct inode *)data;
 	case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH:
 		return d_inode(((const struct path *)data)->dentry);
 	default: