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From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] net: turn name len check into an assert
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:06:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109121906.13752.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109121229.11257.vapier@gentoo.org>

On Monday, September 12, 2011 06:29:10 PM Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday, September 12, 2011 01:08:50 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Monday, September 12, 2011 06:49:53 AM Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > --- a/net/eth.c
> > > +++ b/net/eth.c
> > > 
> > > -	size_t len = strlen(dev->name);
> > > -	if (len >= NAMESIZE) {
> > > -		printf("Network driver name is too long (%zu >= %zu): %s\n",
> > > -						len, NAMESIZE, dev->name);
> > > -		return -1;
> > > -	}
> > > +	assert(strlen(dev->name) < NAMESIZE);
> > 
> > Aren't you changing the logic here ?
> 
> pretty sure it's the same.  old code would warn when "len >= max", while
> mine asserts that "len < max" and thus aborts when "!(len < max)" and
> based on boolean logic, "(x >= y) == !(x < y)".
> -mike

The old code return -1, doesn't abort ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-12 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-12  4:49 [U-Boot] [PATCH] net: turn name len check into an assert Mike Frysinger
2011-09-12  5:08 ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-12 16:29   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-12 17:06     ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2011-09-12 20:24       ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-21 21:04 ` Wolfgang Denk

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