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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	"olaf@aepfle.de" <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	"pebolle@tiscali.nl" <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org" 
	<driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	"stefanha@redhat.com" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"apw@canonical.com" <apw@canonical.com>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 3/7] Drivers: hv: vmbus: add APIs to send/recv hvsock packet and get the r/w-ability
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:10:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150723101057.GQ5371@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75f1792c788e418eaddc0d6b7e3381de@SIXPR30MB031.064d.mgd.msft.net>

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:05:16AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> The kind of usage is not rare in the kernel code:

Yeah.  But it's used 5% of the time.  If it's under 15% then there is a
risk that we'll write a checkpatch rule to enforce the standard way...
There are some places where != 0 is idiomatic, like when you are talking
about the number zero.  strcmp() and friends should always be != 0 or
== 0.

In this specific case, writing it as "if (ret != 0)" caused the bug.  If
we had written it as "if (ret) return ret;" then there are no zeroes so
wouldn't have been any temptation to return the zero instead of the ret.

> Hi Dan, I read this as a humor.  :-)

:)

regards,
dan carpenter


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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: "pebolle@tiscali.nl" <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org"
	<driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	"olaf@aepfle.de" <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	"stefanha@redhat.com" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"apw@canonical.com" <apw@canonical.com>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 3/7] Drivers: hv: vmbus: add APIs to send/recv hvsock packet and get the r/w-ability
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:10:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150723101057.GQ5371@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75f1792c788e418eaddc0d6b7e3381de@SIXPR30MB031.064d.mgd.msft.net>

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:05:16AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> The kind of usage is not rare in the kernel code:

Yeah.  But it's used 5% of the time.  If it's under 15% then there is a
risk that we'll write a checkpatch rule to enforce the standard way...
There are some places where != 0 is idiomatic, like when you are talking
about the number zero.  strcmp() and friends should always be != 0 or
== 0.

In this specific case, writing it as "if (ret != 0)" caused the bug.  If
we had written it as "if (ret) return ret;" then there are no zeroes so
wouldn't have been any temptation to return the zero instead of the ret.

> Hi Dan, I read this as a humor.  :-)

:)

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-23 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-21 10:58 [PATCH V3 3/7] Drivers: hv: vmbus: add APIs to send/recv hvsock packet and get the r/w-ability Dexuan Cui
2015-07-21 14:07 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-07-22 10:09   ` Dexuan Cui
2015-07-22 10:09     ` Dexuan Cui
2015-07-22 10:35     ` Dan Carpenter
2015-07-22 10:35       ` Dan Carpenter
2015-07-23  3:05       ` Dexuan Cui
2015-07-23  3:05         ` Dexuan Cui
2015-07-23 10:10         ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-07-23 10:10           ` Dan Carpenter
2015-07-23 10:24           ` Dan Carpenter
2015-07-23 11:05             ` Dexuan Cui
2015-07-24  6:27             ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-07-24  8:33               ` Dan Carpenter
2015-07-24  8:33                 ` Dan Carpenter

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