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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:53:10 -0400
From:   Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][net-next] svcrdma: fix an incorrect check on -E2BIG and -EINVAL


> On Jul 13, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The current check will always be true and will always jump to
> err1, this looks dubious to me. I believe && should be used
> instead of ||.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1450120 ("Logically Dead Code")
> 
> Fixes: 107c1d0a991a ("svcrdma: Avoid Send Queue overflow")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>

Dan reported this today, and I have a similar patch in my
"pending for-rc" series. This one works too.


> ---
> net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c
> index 19fd01e4b690..7c3a211e0e9a 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c
> @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ int svc_rdma_sendto(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
> 	return 0;
> 
>  err2:
> -	if (ret != -E2BIG || ret != -EINVAL)
> +	if (ret != -E2BIG && ret != -EINVAL)
> 		goto err1;
> 
> 	ret = svc_rdma_post_recv(rdma, GFP_KERNEL);
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 

--
Chuck Lever