linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] isci: Fix infinite loop in while loop

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Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:57:12 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Intel SCU Linux support <intel-linux-scu@...el.com>,
        Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@...el.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isci: Fix infinite loop in while loop

On 20/04/18 10:45, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-04-20 at 10:03 +0100, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> In the case when the phy_mask is bitwise anded with the
>> phy_index bit is zero the continue statement currently jumps
>> to the next iteration of the while loop and phy_index is
>> never actually incremented, potentially causing an infinite
>> loop if phy_index is less than SCI_MAX_PHS. Fix this by
>> jumping to the increment of phy_index.
>>
>> [ The goto is used to save one more level of nesting that
>> makes the code far wider than 80 columns. ]
> 
> what's wrong with replacing the while() with a for() that just works
> (removing the increment at the end).  This is effectively open coding a
> for loop anyway, which is a pattern we wouldn't want replicated.
> 
> James
> 
Good point, V2 en-route.