Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 3 authors, 2014-03-27

Re: [PATCH net 1/3] xen-netback: remove pointless clause from if statement

From: Ian Campbell <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-27 12:24:25

On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 12:23 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
This patch removes a test in start_new_rx_buffer() that checks whether
a copy operation is less than MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET in length, since
MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET is defined to be PAGE_SIZE and the only caller of
start_new_rx_buffer() already limits copy operations to PAGE_SIZE or less.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <redacted>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <redacted>

Although it would have been nice to consider a BUG_ON or ASSERT.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Cc: Wei Liu <redacted>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
index 438d0c0..befc413 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
@@ -192,8 +192,7 @@ static bool start_new_rx_buffer(int offset, unsigned long size, int head)
 	 * into multiple copies tend to give large frags their
 	 * own buffers as before.
 	 */
-	if ((offset + size > MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET) &&
-	    (size <= MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET) && offset && !head)
+	if ((offset + size > MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET) && offset && !head)
 		return true;
 
 	return false;
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