linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch/sparc/math-emu/math

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Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:32:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andrey.krieger.utkin@...il.com
Cc:	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c: drop stray break
 operator

From: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@...il.com>
Date: Mon,  4 Aug 2014 23:47:41 +0300

> This commit is a guesswork, but it seems to make sense to drop this
> break, as otherwise the following line is never executed and becomes
> dead code. And that following line actually saves the result of
> local calculation by the pointer given in function argument. So the
> proposed change makes sense if this code in the whole makes sense (but I
> am unable to analyze it in the whole).
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81641
> Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@...mail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@...il.com>

Yeah, not putting the condition code result into the register might
cause problems :-)

Thanks for catching this, applied and queued up for -stable.
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