linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] staging: rtl8192u: replace ternary statement with if and assignment

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2204081049010.2168@hadrien>
Date:   Fri, 8 Apr 2022 10:50:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
cc:     Rebecca Mckeever <remckee0@...il.com>, outreachy@...ts.linux.dev,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] staging: rtl8192u: replace ternary statement with
 if and assignment



On Fri, 8 Apr 2022, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 06:15:14AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, Rebecca Mckeever wrote:
> >
> > > Replace ternary statement with an if statement followed by an assignment
> > > to increase readability and make error handling more obvious.
> > > Found with minmax coccinelle script.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rebecca Mckeever <remckee0@...il.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c | 4 +++-
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c
> > > index 78cc8f357bbc..9885917b9199 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c
> > > @@ -470,7 +470,9 @@ int ieee80211_wx_get_encode(struct ieee80211_device *ieee,
> > >  		return 0;
> > >  	}
> > >  	len = crypt->ops->get_key(keybuf, SCM_KEY_LEN, NULL, crypt->priv);
> > > -	erq->length = (len >= 0 ? len : 0);
> > > +	if (len < 0)
> > > +		len = 0;
> > > +	erq->length = len;
> >
> > Maybe you could use max here?
>
> Initially Rebecca did use max() but I NAKed it.  It's really not less
> readable.  Better to handle the error explicitly.  Keep the error path
> indented two tabs.  Separate from the success path.

OK.  I have a hard time seeing that as an error path, though, with no
return or goto.  I guess it's error and recover.  OK either way.

julia