linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/stm: fix warning about multiplication in condition

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:52:38 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Yannick Fertre <yannick.fertre@...com>,
        Philippe Cornu <philippe.cornu@...com>,
        Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>,
        Vincent Abriou <vincent.abriou@...com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc:     Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        Archit Taneja <architt@...eaurora.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/stm: fix warning about multiplication in condition

On Tue, 2017-07-25 at 17:40 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> gcc-7 complains about multiplying within a condition being
> suspicious:
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/stm/dw_mipi_dsi-stm.c: In function 'dsi_pll_get_clkout_khz':
> drivers/gpu/drm/stm/dw_mipi_dsi-stm.c:117:10: error: '*' in boolean context, suggest '&&' instead [-Werror=int-in-bool-context]
> 
> The code here is correct, but can be easily rephrased to make
> that more obvious. I also swap out the error handling and the normal
> code path for clarity.

Thanks, the new code does read much better.

> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/stm/dw_mipi_dsi-stm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/stm/dw_mipi_dsi-stm.c
[]
> @@ -113,11 +113,13 @@ static enum dsi_color dsi_color_from_mipi(enum mipi_dsi_pixel_format fmt)
>  
>  static int dsi_pll_get_clkout_khz(int clkin_khz, int idf, int ndiv, int odf)
>  {
> +	int divisor = idf * odf;
> +
>  	/* prevent from division by 0 */
> -	if (idf * odf)
> -		return DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(clkin_khz * ndiv, idf * odf);
> +	if (!divisor)
> +		return 0;
>  
> -	return 0;
> +	return DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(clkin_khz * ndiv, divisor);
>  }
>  
>  static int dsi_pll_get_params(int clkin_khz, int clkout_khz,