netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/5] sctp: Adjust one function call together with a variable assignment

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Message-ID: <44ba1b0c-8987-8710-a9eb-f13ad31bd966@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 17:00:59 -0400
From:   Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] sctp: Adjust one function call together with a
 variable assignment

On 05/22/2017 12:41 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 18:15:12 +0200
> 
> The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following.
> 
> ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition
> 
> Thus fix the affected source code place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>  net/sctp/protocol.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
> index 057479b7bd72..be2fe3ebae78 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
> @@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ static void sctp_v4_copy_addrlist(struct list_head *addrlist,
>  	struct sctp_sockaddr_entry *addr;
>  
>  	rcu_read_lock();
> -	if ((in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev)) == NULL) {
> +	in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev);
> +	if (!in_dev) {
>  		rcu_read_unlock();
>  		return;
>  	}
> 

Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>

-vlad