Re: [PATCH] nl80211: improve nl80211_parse_mesh_config type checking

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 22:29 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When building a kernel with W=1, the nl80211.c file causes a number
> of
> warnings, all about the same problem:
> 
> net/wireless/nl80211.c: In function 'nl80211_parse_mesh_config':
> net/wireless/nl80211.c:5287:103: error: comparison is always false
> due to limited range of data type [-Werror=type-limits]
> net/wireless/nl80211.c:5290:96: error: comparison is always false due
> to limited range of data type [-Werror=type-limits]
> net/wireless/nl80211.c:5293:124: error: comparison is always false
> due to limited range of data type [-Werror=type-limits]
> net/wireless/nl80211.c:5295:148: error: comparison is always false
> due to limited range of data type [-Werror=type-limits]
> net/wireless/nl80211.c:5298:106: error: comparison is always false
> due to limited range of data type [-Werror=type-limits]
> net/wireless/nl80211.c:5305:116: error: comparison is always false
> due to limited range of data type [-Werror=type-limits]
> 
> The problem is that gcc does not notice that the check is generate
> by a macro, so it complains about comparing an unsigned type against
> 0.
> 
> I've tried to come up with a way to rephrase that code in a way that
> avoids the warnings and otherwise improves the code as well.
> 
> This uses a set of new helper functions that perform the range
> checking,
> and should provide slightly better type safety than the older patch,
> at the expense of adding 44 lines to the code. Binary code size is
> basically unchanged though (20 bytes added to 126561 bytes .text).
> 
Applied.

johannes