netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/5] net/mlx4: fix some error handling in mlx4_multi_func

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Date:	Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:15:20 +0100
From:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:	Yishai Hadas <yishaih@....mellanox.co.il>
Cc:	Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"jackm\@mellanox.com" <jackm@...lanox.com>,
	Majd Dibbiny <majd@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] net/mlx4: fix some error handling in mlx4_multi_func_init()

On Wed, Feb 10 2016, Yishai Hadas <yishaih@....mellanox.co.il> wrote:

>> @@ -2429,7 +2429,7 @@ err_thread:
>>   	flush_workqueue(priv->mfunc.master.comm_wq);
>>   	destroy_workqueue(priv->mfunc.master.comm_wq);
>>   err_slaves:
>> -	while (--i) {
>> +	while (i--) {
>
> This fix is wrong as it hits the case that i arrived the last value
> then below code will access to a non valid entry in the array.
>
> The expected fix should be:
> while (--i >= 0)
>

Huh? They're completely equivalent (given that i is necessarily
non-negative before we evaluate the loop condition). I don't really care
either way, but git grep says that 'while (i--)' is 5 times more common
than 'while (--i >= 0)'.

Rasmus