netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/9] RDS: Fix ordering in a conditional

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Message-ID: <adak566e2pi.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:27:53 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Andy Grover <andy.grover@...cle.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] RDS: Fix ordering in a conditional

 > -	if (0 <= ret && (unsigned) ret < nr_pages) {
 > +	if (ret > 0 && (unsigned) ret < nr_pages) {

This is not an equivalent transformation -- the original code is true if
ret == 0, while the new code is false.

Also it seems you don't need the unsigned cast here, since the clause
before just checked that ret is positive?

 - R.
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