linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: fix fsl_mc_is

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Date:   Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:14:23 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@....com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Stuart Yoder <stuyoder@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>,
        "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: fix fsl_mc_is_allocatable strcmps

On 16/08/17 14:37, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
> On 08/16/2017 03:06 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:44:51PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>>
>>> The previous fix removed the equal to zero comparisons by the strcmps and
>>> now the function always returns true. Fix this by adding in the missing
>>> logical negation operators.
>>>
>>> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1452267 ("Constant expression result")
>>>
>>> Fixes: b93ad9a067e1 ("staging: fsl-mc: be consistent when checking strcmp() return")
> 
> Thanks Colin (and Coverity) for catching this!
> 
>> Ugh...  I did review the original patch at all.  Sorry.
> 
> As a side note, funny how i got the patch description right but not the 
> actual patch. :-)
> 
>> It's better to use "== 0" because it's idiomatic.
> 
> Agree, plus this approach would be consistent with the rest of the 
> driver (except one place in drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus/dprc-driver.c +32)

OK, I'll send a revert sometime today as that seems the sane solution.

Colin
> 
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