netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: xgmac: add missing parentheses to fix precendence error

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Date:   Wed, 2 Oct 2019 16:33:57 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: xgmac: add missing parentheses to fix
 precendence error

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 12:08:49PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The expression !(hw_cap & XGMAC_HWFEAT_RAVSEL) >> 10 is always zero, so
> the masking operation is incorrect. Fix this by adding the missing
> parentheses to correctly bind the negate operator on the entire expression.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Operands don't affect result")
> Fixes: c2b69474d63b ("net: stmmac: xgmac: Correct RAVSEL field interpretation")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2_dma.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2_dma.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2_dma.c
> index 965cbe3e6f51..2e814aa64a5c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2_dma.c
> @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static void dwxgmac2_get_hw_feature(void __iomem *ioaddr,
>  	dma_cap->eee = (hw_cap & XGMAC_HWFEAT_EEESEL) >> 13;
>  	dma_cap->atime_stamp = (hw_cap & XGMAC_HWFEAT_TSSEL) >> 12;
>  	dma_cap->av = (hw_cap & XGMAC_HWFEAT_AVSEL) >> 11;
> -	dma_cap->av &= !(hw_cap & XGMAC_HWFEAT_RAVSEL) >> 10;
> +	dma_cap->av &= !((hw_cap & XGMAC_HWFEAT_RAVSEL) >> 10);

There is no point to the shift at all.

regards,
dan carpenter