In some code I am developing I had occasion to change the type of a
variable. This made the value put_user was putting to user space wrong.
But the code continued to build cleanly without errors.
Introducing a temporary fixes this problem and at least with gcc-3.3.5 does
not cause gcc any problems with optimizing out the temporary. gcc-4.x
using SSA internally ought to be even better at optimizing out temporaries,
so I don't expect a temporary to become a problem. Especially because in
all correct cases the types on both sides of the assignment to the
temporary are the same.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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