From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
To: Chase Southwood <chase.southwood@yahoo.com>, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: hsweeten@visionengravers.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: clean up conditional statement in addi_apci_3xxx.c
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:08:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FC99AA.90508@mev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392262167-4073-1-git-send-email-chase.southwood@yahoo.com>
On 2014-02-13 03:29, Chase Southwood wrote:
> In this if-else conditional statement, if (chan < 16), but
> (data[0] == INSN_CONFIG_DIO_QUERY), the function does not return early,
> but the else-branch does not get executed either. As a result, mask
> would be used uninitialized in the next line. What we want here is if
> (chan < 16) and (data[0] != INSN_CONFIG_DIO_QUERY), return an error, but
> in every other case, initialize mask and then proceed. Found by a static
> checker.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chase Southwood <chase.southwood@yahoo.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi_apci_3xxx.c | 12 +++++-------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi_apci_3xxx.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi_apci_3xxx.c
> index ceadf8e..04c5153 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi_apci_3xxx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi_apci_3xxx.c
> @@ -688,13 +688,11 @@ static int apci3xxx_dio_insn_config(struct comedi_device *dev,
> * Port 1 (channels 8-15) are always outputs
> * Port 2 (channels 16-23) are programmable i/o
> */
> - if (chan < 16) {
> - if (data[0] != INSN_CONFIG_DIO_QUERY)
> - return -EINVAL;
> - } else {
> - /* changing any channel in port 2 changes the entire port */
> - mask = 0xff0000;
> - }
> + if ((chan < 16) && (data[0] != INSN_CONFIG_DIO_QUERY))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + /* changing any channel in port 2 changes the entire port */
> + mask = 0xff0000;
>
> ret = comedi_dio_insn_config(dev, s, insn, data, mask);
> if (ret)
Seems correct.
Acked-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-13 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-13 3:29 [PATCH] Staging: comedi: clean up conditional statement in addi_apci_3xxx.c Chase Southwood
2014-02-13 10:08 ` Ian Abbott [this message]
2014-02-14 11:52 ` Ian Abbott
2014-02-13 18:25 ` Hartley Sweeten
2014-02-14 11:49 ` Ian Abbott
2014-02-14 17:54 ` Hartley Sweeten
2014-02-14 1:02 ` [PATCH v2] " Chase Southwood
2014-02-14 11:54 ` Ian Abbott
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