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From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Stuart Yoder <stuyoder@gmail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: fix fsl_mc_is_allocatable strcmps
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:37:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59944AB2.6010809@nxp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170816120654.p3mpezb3zr2eqxvw@mwanda>

On 08/16/2017 03:06 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:44:51PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>
>> The previous fix removed the equal to zero comparisons by the strcmps and
>> now the function always returns true. Fix this by adding in the missing
>> logical negation operators.
>>
>> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1452267 ("Constant expression result")
>>
>> Fixes: b93ad9a067e1 ("staging: fsl-mc: be consistent when checking strcmp() return")

Thanks Colin (and Coverity) for catching this!

> Ugh...  I did review the original patch at all.  Sorry.

As a side note, funny how i got the patch description right but not the 
actual patch. :-)

> It's better to use "== 0" because it's idiomatic.

Agree, plus this approach would be consistent with the rest of the 
driver (except one place in drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus/dprc-driver.c +32)

---
Best Regards, Laurentiu

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-16 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-16 11:44 [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: fix fsl_mc_is_allocatable strcmps Colin King
2017-08-16 12:06 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-16 12:10   ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-16 13:37   ` Laurentiu Tudor [this message]
2017-08-16 14:14     ` Colin Ian King

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