linux-kernel - Re: [usb-storage] [PATCH] usb: storage: add missing pre-increment to variable

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Date:   Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:07:37 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     oneukum@...e.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, usb-storage@...ts.one-eyed-alien.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [usb-storage] [PATCH] usb: storage: add missing pre-increment
 to variable

Hi Alan,

Quoting Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>:

> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>
>> Add missing pre-increment to 'waitcount' variable used in do-while loop.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1011631
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/usb/storage/jumpshot.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/jumpshot.c b/drivers/usb/storage/jumpshot.c
>> index 011e527..a26c4bb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/usb/storage/jumpshot.c
>> +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/jumpshot.c
>> @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static int jumpshot_write_data(struct us_data *us,
>>  				//
>>  				msleep(50);
>>  			}
>> -		} while ((result != USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_GOOD) && (waitcount < 10));
>> +		} while ((result != USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_GOOD) && (++waitcount < 10));
>>
>>  		if (result != USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_GOOD)
>>  			usb_stor_dbg(us, "Gah!  Waitcount = 10.  Bad write!?\n");
>>
>
> This has already been reported and fixed.  See
>
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=148604164024557&w=2
>

Awesome. Thanks for the info.
--
Gustavo A. R. Silva