linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ALSA: intel8x0: Check return value before assigning

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Date:	Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:40:36 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Emil Goode <emilgoode@...il.com>, mtosatti@...hat.com,
	gleb@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	avi@...hat.com, mst@...hat.com, perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.de,
	crimsun@...ntu.com, wfp5p@...ginia.edu, peter.senna@...il.com
CC:	x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ALSA: intel8x0: Check return value before assigning

Wtf?
 
This patch seems semibogus at best and the description is even more ridiculous...

Emil Goode <emilgoode@...il.com> wrote:

>The first patch in this series changes the return type of function
>kvm_para_available to bool. In the function snd_intel8x0_inside_vm
>we now need to check it's return value before assigning a value to
>the result variable.
>
>Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@...il.com>
>---
> sound/pci/intel8x0.c |    2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/sound/pci/intel8x0.c b/sound/pci/intel8x0.c
>index 3b9be75..fa9337e 100644
>--- a/sound/pci/intel8x0.c
>+++ b/sound/pci/intel8x0.c
>@@ -2982,7 +2982,7 @@ static int snd_intel8x0_inside_vm(struct pci_dev
>*pci)
> 	}
> 
> 	/* detect KVM and Parallels virtual environments */
>-	result = kvm_para_available();
>+	result = kvm_para_available() ? 1 : 0;
> #ifdef X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR
> 	result = result || boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR);
> #endif

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