netdev - Re: [PATCH, RFC 21/30] isdn: divert, hysdn: fix interruptible_sleep

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Message-ID: <52C5EFAA.2070403@cogentembedded.com>
Date:	Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:00:58 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 21/30] isdn: divert, hysdn: fix interruptible_sleep_on
 race

Hello.

On 01/02/2014 07:48 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

>>> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/divert/divert_procfs.c b/drivers/isdn/divert/divert_procfs.c
>>> index fb4f1ba..1c5dc34 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/isdn/divert/divert_procfs.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/isdn/divert/divert_procfs.c
>>> @@ -86,12 +86,13 @@ isdn_divert_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *off)
>>>        struct divert_info *inf;
>>>        int len;
>>>
>>> -     if (!*((struct divert_info **) file->private_data)) {
>>> +     if (!(inf = *((struct divert_info **) file->private_data))) {

>>      checkpatch.pl shouldn't approve assignment inside *if*. Though you're
>> moving it from the existing code, it wouldn't hurt to fix it.

> I tried to touch as little as possible, and while I wouldn't use that
> style myself, it is applied consistently in this driver, including the
> wait_event line I'm adding, where I feel it actually makes sense.

    I wasn't feeling sure about that one. It seems to me now that it doesn't 
make much sense -- we could do the assignment beforehand.

>>>                if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
>>>                        return -EAGAIN;
>>> -             interruptible_sleep_on(&(rd_queue));
>>> +             wait_event_interruptible(rd_queue, (inf =
>>> +                     *((struct divert_info **) file->private_data)));

>>      Parens around assignment are hardly useful.

> We get a gcc warning without them:

> drivers/isdn/divert/divert_procfs.c:95:14: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]
>      *((struct divert_info **) file->private_data));

    Ah...

> I can still change the first one (in both files) if you think it's important,

    I always prefer checkpatch.pl-clean patches, though some people do argue 
when they are just moving the badly styled code around.

> but I'd rather not spend too much energy at coding style changes.

    Let's wait for the maintainer's opinion on this.

> 	Arnd

WBR, Sergei

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