linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: !x & y typo in mtrr code

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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:04:35 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: !x & y typo in mtrr code


* Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 09:00:17PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > As written, this can never be true.
> 
> ... and introduced through x86.git, of all things...  May I suggest 
> that in addition to all-important whitespace hunting something that 
> catches lowly real bugs would also be run over that tree?  sparse 
> *does* catch that...

firstly, it _was_ caught via Sparse, secondly, if you check the code 
flow, the bug - while indeed ugly looking - was harmless and had no 
side-effects. That's why it didnt trigger in testing.

	Ingo
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