<div dir="ltr"><div>A small suggestion, use begin { and end } braces for declaring your macro. May be I am wrong, but you can try this. Then, the declaration become local to that block.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div>
<div>Srinivas</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Saket Sinha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saket.sinha89@gmail.com" target="_blank">saket.sinha89@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>"current" in kernel is a global macro, that always point to the "struct task_struct * " of the currently executing task (for details on task_struct, ref Robert Love, pg 24-27).<br>
<br> Now I have a macro called push root which has the following purpose-<br>"to push root user and group to current context so to set current uid and gid to 0."<br><br> Now in kernel 3.8.3, I would do something like<br>
<br>struct cred *new1;<br>new1 =prepare_creds();<br>new1->uid = 0; <br>new1->gid = 0;<br>commit_creds(new1);<br><br>So macro definition of push root, according to what I have proposed above, should be<br>#define push_root \<br>
new1 =prepare_creds(); \<br>new1->uid = 0; \ <br>new1->gid = 0; \<br>commit_creds(new1) <br><br>But I am getting errors like multiple declaration of new1 etc.<br><br>
Even if I declare prepare_creds outside macro definition like<br>
<br>new1 =prepare_creds(); <br>#define push_root \<br>new1->uid = 0; \ <br>new1->gid = 0; \<br>commit_creds(new1) <br><br>I think I am facing the issue that the macros are inlined during compilation, so when the compiler wants to replace them, it raises issues.<br>
<br>I could think of two ways to solve this issue-<br><br>1. define a new macro like #define prep_root() which defines the var once for all, and that I have to put it at the begin of each function needing push_root. This is not a very good method.<br>
<br>2. I should still try to go with inlined functions but how ?<br><br>Can someone suggest anything<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Saket Sinha<br></div>
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