linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: Fix abuse of the preincrement operator

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:44:05 -0700
From:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gustavo@...ovan.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: Fix abuse of the preincrement operator

On 06/28/2010 05:57 AM, David Howells wrote:
> Fix abuse of the preincrement operator as detected when building with gcc
> 4.6.0:
>
> 	 CC [M]  drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.o
> 	drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.c: In function 'bcsp_prepare_pkt':
> 	drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.c:247:20: warning: operation on 'bcsp->msgq_txseq' may be undefined
>
> Reported-by: Justin P. Mattock<justinmattock@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells<dhowells@...hat.com>
> ---
>
>   drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.c |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.c b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.c
> index 40aec0f..42d69d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.c
> +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.c
> @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *bcsp_prepare_pkt(struct bcsp_struct *bcsp, u8 *data,
>   	if (rel) {
>   		hdr[0] |= 0x80 + bcsp->msgq_txseq;
>   		BT_DBG("Sending packet with seqno %u", bcsp->msgq_txseq);
> -		bcsp->msgq_txseq = ++(bcsp->msgq_txseq)&  0x07;
> +		bcsp->msgq_txseq = (bcsp->msgq_txseq + 1)&  0x07;
>   	}
>
>   	if (bcsp->use_crc)
>
>

ahh.. so it's o.k. to add the value after bcsp->msgq_txseq instead of 
before. Anyways build clean over here..

Thanks!

Justin P. Mattock
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