Re: [PATCH] net: core: datagram: tidy up copy functions a bit

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On 10/12/19 4:55 AM, Vito Caputo wrote:
> Eliminate some verbosity by using min() macro and consolidating some
> things, also fix inconsistent zero tests (! vs. == 0).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com>
> ---
>  net/core/datagram.c | 44 ++++++++++++++------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/datagram.c b/net/core/datagram.c
> index 4cc8dc5db2b7..08d403f93952 100644
> --- a/net/core/datagram.c
> +++ b/net/core/datagram.c
> @@ -413,13 +413,11 @@ static int __skb_datagram_iter(const struct sk_buff *skb, int offset,
>  					    struct iov_iter *), void *data)
>  {
>  	int start = skb_headlen(skb);
> -	int i, copy = start - offset, start_off = offset, n;
> +	int i, copy, start_off = offset, n;
>  	struct sk_buff *frag_iter;
>  
>  	/* Copy header. */
> -	if (copy > 0) {
> -		if (copy > len)
> -			copy = len;
> +	if ((copy = min(start - offset, len)) > 0) {

No, we prefer not having this kind of construct anymore.

This refactoring looks unnecessary code churn, making our future backports not
clean cherry-picks.

Simply making sure this patch does not bring a regression is very time consuming.