Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 17/17] batman-adv: Avoid precedence issues in macros

Joe Perches
2016-10-29T01:56:24Z

On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 23:27 +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> On Freitag, 28. Oktober 2016 14:13:06 CEST Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 21:01 +0200, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> > > From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
> > >
> > > It must be avoided that arguments to a macro are evaluated ungrouped (which
> > > enforces normal operator precendence). Otherwise the result of the macro
> > > is not well defined.
> >
> > Curiosity:
> >
> > in net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c
>
> [...]
> > orig_node = batadv_orig_hash_find(bat_priv, tp_vars->other_end);
> > if (unlikely(!orig_node)) {
> > err = BATADV_TP_REASON_DST_UNREACHABLE;
> > tp_vars->reason = err;
> > goto out;
> > }
> >
> > primary_if = batadv_primary_if_get_selected(bat_priv);
> > if (unlikely(!primary_if)) {
> > err = BATADV_TP_REASON_DST_UNREACHABLE;
> > goto out;
> > }
> >
> > err is not used in the out block
> >
> > Is the last if block supposed to set tp_vars->reason to err?
>
> This seems to be unrelated to this patch.

Kinda. I was looking at how the one instance of
batadv_tp_is_error was used and it's in this file.

> But yes, looks to me like it is missing. Do you want to propose a patch or
> should I do?

As you are working on this file, perhaps you should.

cheers, Joe