On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 03:09:52PM +0200, Simon Schuster via B4 Relay wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
> index e16ed102960c..d7aa95225c70 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
> @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void)
> __asm__("ret_from_fork");
>
> int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
> {
> - unsigned long clone_flags = args->flags;
> + u64 clone_flags = args->flags;
> unsigned long stack_start = args->stack;
> unsigned long tls = args->tls;
> struct thread_info *thread = task_thread_info(p);
We only have one user of clone_flags in this function, which is:
if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
I would much rather clone_flags was removed, and this changed to:
if (args->flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
Thanks.
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