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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	Jose Alberto Reguero <jareguero@telefonica.net>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch -resend] [media] az6007: precedence bug in az6007_i2c_xfer()
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:33:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120628193354.GL3007@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FEB0664.3030408@redhat.com>

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:11:00AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 27-06-2012 06:06, Dan Carpenter escreveu:
> > The intent here was to test that the flag was clear but the '!' has
> > higher precedence than the '&'.  I2C_M_RD is 0x1 so the current code is
> > equivalent to "&& (!sgs[i].flags) ..."
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > ---
> > I sent this originally on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 and Emil Goode sent the same
> > fix on Thu, May 3, 2012.
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c
> > index 4008b9c..f6f0cf9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c
> > @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ static int az6007_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg msgs[],
> >   		addr = msgs[i].addr << 1;
> >   		if (((i + 1) < num)
> >   		    && (msgs[i].len = 1)
> > -		    && (!msgs[i].flags & I2C_M_RD)
> > +		    && (!(msgs[i].flags & I2C_M_RD))
> >   		    && (msgs[i + 1].flags & I2C_M_RD)
> >   		    && (msgs[i].addr = msgs[i + 1].addr)) {
> >   			/*
> > 
> 
> Dan,
> 
> Your logic is correct, however, I didn't apply this patch because it broke
> the driver.
> 
> I'll need to re-visit the driver when I have some time, in order to be
> able to apply this one, without breaking the driver. I'll likely need to
> change some other things on this routine.
> 
> (this has a low priority, as the driver is working properly the way it is).
> 
> So, I'm keeping your patch at patchwork, while I don't find some time for it.

We could just put a comment next to the code and forget about it.

               && (!(msgs[i].flags & I2C_M_RD)) /* the fix needs testing. */

Sparse complains about this so it people are going to keep sending
patches for it.  It's not like you should be stuck doing all the
work.

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-28 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2012-06-27  8:59 ` [patch -resend] [SCSI] bfa: off by one in bfa_ioc_mbox_isr() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 17:44   ` Krishna Gudipati
2012-06-27  8:59 ` [patch -resend] [SCSI] bfa: dereferencing freed memory in bfad_im_probe() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 17:45   ` Krishna Gudipati
2012-06-27  9:00 ` [patch -resend] [SCSI] megaraid: remove a spurious IRQ enable Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 22:36   ` adam radford
2012-06-27  9:00 ` [patch 1/2 -resend] SCSI: advansys: handle errors from scsi_dma_map() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:01   ` walter harms
2012-06-27 10:15     ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:01 ` [patch 2/2 -resend] SCSI: advansys: use a subsystem error code Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:01 ` [patch -resend] 9p: fix min_t() casting in p9pdu_vwritef() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:19   ` walter harms
2012-06-27 10:36     ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:56   ` walter harms
2012-06-27 22:26   ` David Miller
2012-06-27  9:02 ` [patch -resend] spi/spidev: handle integer wrap in spidev_message() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:02 ` [patch -resend] mmc: ushc: fix an endianness conversion in ushc_request() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:03 ` [patch -resend] sgi-xp: nested calls to spin_lock_irqsave() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:04 ` [patch 1/3 -resend] [SCSI] pmcraid: remove unneeded check Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:04 ` [patch 2/3 -resend] [SCSI] pmcraid: cpu_to_le32() => cpu_to_le64() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:04 ` [patch 3/3 -resend] [SCSI] pmcraid: find_first_zero_bit() takes bits not bytes Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:05 ` [patch -resend] [SCSI] isci: add a couple __iomem annotations Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 20:58   ` Dan Williams
2012-06-27  9:06 ` [patch -resend] NVMe: handle allocation failure in nvme_map_user_pages() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:06 ` [patch -resend] [media] az6007: precedence bug in az6007_i2c_xfer() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 13:11   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-06-28 19:33     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-06-27  9:07 ` [patch v3 -resend] edac i5000, i5400: fix pointer math in i5000_get_mc_regs() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 12:15   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-06-27  9:08 ` [patch -resend] [SCSI] megaraid: cleanup type issue in mega_build_cmd() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 22:36   ` adam radford
2012-06-27  9:08 ` [patch 1/2 -resend] dma-debug: debugfs_create_bool() takes a u32 pointer Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 11:09   ` Neil Horman
2012-07-02 10:15   ` Joerg Roedel
2012-06-27  9:09 ` [patch 2/2 -resend] iommu/amd: fix type bug in flush code Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:10 ` [patch -resend] isci: make function declaration match implementation Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:10 ` [patch -resend] drm/i915/bios: cleanup return type of intel_parse_bios() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27  9:10 ` [patch -resend] leds-lp5523: BUG() in error handling in probe() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-27 10:49   ` Bryan Wu
2012-06-27 10:55     ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-28 19:39       ` Matt Renzelmann
2012-06-27  9:11 ` [patch -resend] Input: ff-memless - fix a couple min_t() casts Dan Carpenter
2012-07-08  1:18   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-06-27  9:11 ` [patch -resend] [patch] tlb_uv: remove some dead code in parse_tunables_write() Dan Carpenter

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