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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Raczynski <j.raczynski@samsung.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
	przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/intel: Replace manual array size calculation with ARRAY_SIZE
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:22:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aejLsqoXKBHwWTbL@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aeiHkejLjhRKyj/u@AMDC4622.eu.corp.samsungelectronics.net>

On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 10:32:17AM +0200, Jakub Raczynski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 05:11:19PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 01:40:29PM +0200, Jakub Raczynski wrote:
> > >  
> > > -	if (!((u32)aq_rc < (sizeof(aq_to_posix) / sizeof((aq_to_posix)[0]))))
> > > +	if (!((u32)aq_rc < ARRAY_SIZE(aq_to_posix)))
> > 
> > This still isn't beautiful.  There are so many parens.  The !(foo < size)
> > formulation is weird.  The cast is unnnecessary.  Better to write it as:
> > 
> > 	if (aq_rc >= ARRAY_SIZE(aq_to_posix))
> > 		return -ERANGE;
> > 
> > >  		return -ERANGE;
> > >  
> > >  	return aq_to_posix[aq_rc];
> > 
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> >
> 
> Alright, will beautify it and resend soon.
> 
> I can see potential original intention of not comparing unsigned from sizeof
> with int, maybe that was original compiler configuration to include that
> warning.

Yeah.  I know.  I wrote a blog about this...

https://staticthinking.wordpress.com/2023/07/25/wsign-compare-is-garbage/

Check this out:

$ git grep '(int)' | grep ARRAY_SIZE | wc -l
53

It's as if we want array underflows.

> But at this variable range it is irrelevant and it is probably most disabled
> warning ever.

With the unnecessary cast I had to review to ensure that aq_rc is not
unsigned long type.  There is a real downside to this kind of rule.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-22 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20260421114034eucas1p1d746ffe32b49aeb57f10e729d1331124@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2026-04-21 11:40 ` [PATCH] net/intel: Replace manual array size calculation with ARRAY_SIZE Jakub Raczynski
2026-04-21 14:11   ` Dan Carpenter
2026-04-22  8:32     ` Jakub Raczynski
2026-04-22 13:22       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2026-04-22 10:57     ` [PATCH v2] " Jakub Raczynski
2026-04-22 13:24       ` Dan Carpenter

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