Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2014-03-31

For 3.14 [PATCH v3 net 1/3] xen-netback: remove pointless clause from if statement

From: Sander Eikelenboom <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-28 12:45:58

Friday, March 28, 2014, 12:39:05 PM, you 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>
Cc: Ian Campbell <redacted>
Cc: Wei Liu <redacted>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
index 438d0c0..72314c7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ 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)
+       BUG_ON(size > MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET);
+       if ((offset + size > MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET) && offset && !head)
                return true;
 
        return false;
For the whole v3 series:

Reported-By: Sander Eikelenboom <redacted>
Tested-By: Sander Eikelenboom <redacted>

CC'ed Dave to get his attention since this is a last minute for 3.14.

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Sander
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