linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mmc: alcor: remove a redundant greater or equal to zero comparison

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Message-ID: <CAPDyKFoXEr+DskqQesxJoe+btA3VXzwZKhVZSXLHiw7tiwhX3g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 8 Jul 2019 13:55:59 +0200
From:   Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>,
        "linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: alcor: remove a redundant greater or equal to zero comparison

On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 19:52, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> A greater or equal comparison on the unsigned int variable tmp_diff
> is always true as unsigned ints are never negative.  Hence the
> comparison is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied for next, thanks!

Kind regards
Uffe


> ---
>  drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c b/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
> index e481535cba2b..1aee485d56d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
> @@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ static void alcor_set_clock(struct alcor_sdmmc_host *host, unsigned int clock)
>                 tmp_clock = DIV_ROUND_UP(cfg->clk_src_freq, tmp_div);
>                 tmp_diff = abs(clock - tmp_clock);
>
> -               if (tmp_diff >= 0 && tmp_diff < diff) {
> +               if (tmp_diff < diff) {
>                         diff = tmp_diff;
>                         clk_src = cfg->clk_src_reg;
>                         clk_div = tmp_div;
> --
> 2.20.1
>