Re: [patch] sctp: fix test for end of loop

[Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>]

On 09/06/2010 08:26 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> "new_addr" is the list cursor here and it's always non-NULL.
> 
> We're trying to test if we exited because the loop ended or we hit the
> break statement.  Really testing !found is enough so long as 
> "new_asoc->peer.transport_addr_list" is not empty and I believe it never
> is empty at this point.  So this is never really a bug with the current
> code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> ---
> Compile tested only.
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
> index 24b2cd5..cb76d2e 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
> @@ -1254,7 +1254,6 @@ static int sctp_sf_check_restart_addrs(const struct sctp_association *new_asoc,
>  	/* Search through all current addresses and make sure
>  	 * we aren't adding any new ones.
>  	 */
> -	new_addr = NULL;
>  	found = 0;
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(new_addr, &new_asoc->peer.transport_addr_list,
> @@ -1273,7 +1272,8 @@ static int sctp_sf_check_restart_addrs(const struct sctp_association *new_asoc,
>  	}
>  
>  	/* If a new address was added, ABORT the sender. */
> -	if (!found && new_addr) {
> +	if (!found &&
> +	    &new_addr->transports != &new_asoc->peer.transport_addr_list) {

I am really not fond of this code.  I think it would be better to move
this abort code into the loop and break out once things are aborted.

This way we can get rid of the whole found check after the outer loop happens
and it cleans things up nicely.

-vlad

>  		sctp_sf_send_restart_abort(&new_addr->ipaddr, init, commands);
>  	}
>  
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