linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdbus: fix type conversion in item macroses

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Message-ID: <20150604152426.GH4549@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 4 Jun 2015 18:24:26 +0300
From:	Sergei Zviagintsev <sergei@...v.net>
To:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...glemail.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, sergei@...v.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdbus: fix type conversion in item macroses

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 01:26:03PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Sergei Zviagintsev <sergei@...v.net> wrote:
> > KDBUS_ITEM_NEXT and KDBUS_ITEMS_END macroses do not enclose _i argument
> > into parentheses when applying the cast operator. If complex expression
> > passed, e.g.
> >
> >     KDBUS_ITEM_NEXT(condition ? a : b)
> >
> > then type conversion to (u8 *) will go wrong due to precedence rules.
> >
> > Use parentheses properly. Update documentation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sergei Zviagintsev <sergei@...v.net>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/kdbus/kdbus.item.xml | 2 +-
> >  ipc/kdbus/item.h                   | 4 ++--
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>

It seems that I missed the same issue with KDBUS_ITEMS_SIZE (and
samples/kdbus as well, but that would be another patch), so I'd better
fix that and merge with updated version of

  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1969533

into single patch.
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