linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] media: v4l2-device.h: Explicitly compare grpmask to zero in v4l2_device_mask_call

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Date:   Fri, 6 Dec 2019 13:59:07 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] media: v4l2-device.h: Explicitly compare grpmask to
 zero in v4l2_device_mask_call_all

Bumping for review.

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:00 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@...il.com> wrote:
>
> When building with Clang + -Wtautological-constant-compare, several of
> the ivtv drivers warn along the lines of:
>
>  drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c:1005:21: warning: converting the
>  result of '<<' to a boolean always evaluates to true
>  [-Wtautological-constant-compare]
>                          cx18_call_hw(cx, CX18_HW_GPIO_RESET_CTRL,
>                                          ^
>  drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-cards.h:18:37: note: expanded from macro
>  'CX18_HW_GPIO_RESET_CTRL'
>  #define CX18_HW_GPIO_RESET_CTRL         (1 << 6)
>                                            ^
>  1 warning generated.
>
> This is because the shift operation is implicitly converted to a boolean
> in v4l2_device_mask_call_all before being negated. This can be solved by
> just comparing the mask result to 0 explicitly so that there is no
> boolean conversion.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/752
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191024201240.49063-1-natechancellor@gmail.com/
>
> * Fix typo in commit message
> * Add Nick's Reviewed-by.
>
>  include/media/v4l2-device.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-device.h b/include/media/v4l2-device.h
> index e0b8f2602670..8564b3227887 100644
> --- a/include/media/v4l2-device.h
> +++ b/include/media/v4l2-device.h
> @@ -431,8 +431,8 @@ static inline bool v4l2_device_supports_requests(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev)
>                 struct v4l2_subdev *__sd;                               \
>                                                                         \
>                 __v4l2_device_call_subdevs_p(v4l2_dev, __sd,            \
> -                       !(grpmsk) || (__sd->grp_id & (grpmsk)), o, f ,  \
> -                       ##args);                                        \
> +                       (grpmsk) == 0 || (__sd->grp_id & (grpmsk)), o,  \
> +                       f , ##args);                                    \
>         } while (0)
>
>  /**
> --
> 2.24.0
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers