Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 5 authors, 2013-06-05

Re: [PATCH] include/linux/skbuff.h: using '0xffff' instead of '~0U'

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2013-05-30 15:30:16
Also in: lkml

On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 14:03 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
Both 'transport_header' and 'mac_header' are u16, which are never equal
to '~0U'.

So need use '0xffff' instead of '~0U'.
...and give this magic number a name?

Ben.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The related warning (with EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W ARCH=m68k for allmodconfig)
  include/linux/skbuff.h:1587:2: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
  ...


Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <redacted>
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 2e0ced1..03ba058 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ static inline void skb_set_inner_mac_header(struct sk_buff *skb,
 }
 static inline bool skb_transport_header_was_set(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	return skb->transport_header != ~0U;
+	return skb->transport_header != 0xffff;
 }
 
 static inline unsigned char *skb_transport_header(const struct sk_buff *skb)
@@ -1624,7 +1624,7 @@ static inline unsigned char *skb_mac_header(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 static inline int skb_mac_header_was_set(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	return skb->mac_header != ~0U;
+	return skb->mac_header != 0xffff;
 }
 
 static inline void skb_reset_mac_header(struct sk_buff *skb)
-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
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