posix_types.h: Cleanup stale __NFDBITS and related definitions

Recently, glibc made a change to suppress sign-conversion warnings in
FD_SET (glibc commit ceb9e56b3d1).  This uncovered an issue with the
kernel's definition of __NFDBITS if applications #include
<linux/types.h> after including <sys/select.h>.  A build failure would
be seen when passing the -Werror=sign-compare and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
flags to gcc.

It was suggested that the kernel should either match the glibc
definition of __NFDBITS or remove that entirely.  The current in-kernel
uses of __NFDBITS can be replaced with BITS_PER_LONG, and there are no
uses of the related __FDELT and __FDMASK defines.  Given that, we'll
continue the cleanup that was started with commit 8b3d1cda4f
("posix_types: Remove fd_set macros") and drop the remaining unused
macros.

Additionally, linux/time.h has similar macros defined that expand to
nothing so we'll remove those at the same time.

Reported-by: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
[ .. and fix up whitespace as per akpm ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Josh Boyer 2012-07-25 10:40:34 -04:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 4cb38750d4
commit 8ded2bbc18
7 changed files with 12 additions and 32 deletions

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@ -257,14 +257,6 @@ static __always_inline void timespec_add_ns(struct timespec *a, u64 ns)
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#define NFDBITS __NFDBITS
#define FD_SETSIZE __FD_SETSIZE
#define FD_SET(fd,fdsetp) __FD_SET(fd,fdsetp)
#define FD_CLR(fd,fdsetp) __FD_CLR(fd,fdsetp)
#define FD_ISSET(fd,fdsetp) __FD_ISSET(fd,fdsetp)
#define FD_ZERO(fdsetp) __FD_ZERO(fdsetp)
/*
* Names of the interval timers, and structure
* defining a timer setting: