Re: test of 'good_bytes' in scsi_io_completion is always true (indrivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c)

[Jesper Juhl]

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> (please keep me on the CC list when replying)
> 
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> I never got any response to the mail below, so I'll try again :)
> Should we just get rid of the code in the 'if' since it'll never trigger, 

I mean get rid of the "if", not "the code in the if" of course..


> or was the intention actually to test  if (good_bytes > 0)  ?  If so, then 
> the patch should make good sense...
> 
> Comments ?
> 
> -- 
> Jesper Juhl
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> > 
> > in drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c::scsi_io_completion() 'good_bytes' is tested 
> > for being >= 0, but 'good_bytes' is an unsigned int, so that test is 
> > always true. My *guess* is that what was intended was to test if 
> > good_bytes is > 0, but I don't know this code well enough to be sure. 
> > The patch below makes the change to test if it's > 0, but if the code in 
> > the 'if' really wants to run if it's >= 0, then we might as well just 
> > remove the 'if'.
> > 
> > In any case, the current code looks fishy.
> > 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>
> > 
> > --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3-orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c	2005-04-11 21:20:49.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c	2005-04-20 00:29:14.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ void scsi_io_completion(struct scsi_cmnd
> >  	 * Next deal with any sectors which we were able to correctly
> >  	 * handle.
> >  	 */
> > -	if (good_bytes >= 0) {
> > +	if (good_bytes > 0) {
> >  		SCSI_LOG_HLCOMPLETE(1, printk("%ld sectors total, %d bytes done.\n",
> >  					      req->nr_sectors, good_bytes));
> >  		SCSI_LOG_HLCOMPLETE(1, printk("use_sg is %d\n", cmd->use_sg));
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Please keep me on CC:
> > 
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