Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: fix incorrect counts returned by acpi_parse_entries_array()

[Al Stone]

On 07/01/2016 03:44 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Al Stone <ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 07/01/2016 03:25 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 11:21 PM, Al Stone <ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> The static function acpi_parse_entries_array() is provided an array of
>>>> type struct acpi_subtable_proc that has a callback function and a count.
>>>> The count should reflect how many times the callback has been successfully
>>>> called.  However, the current code only increments the 0th element of the
>>>> array, regardless of the number of entries in the array, or which callback
>>>> has been invoked.  The fix is to use the index into the array, instead of
>>>> a pointer to the beginning of the array.
>>>
>>> OK, so it would be good to say what the consequences of the problem are too.
>>>
>>
>> Hrm.  So replace the last sentence with something like:
>>
>>    The fix is to use the index into the array, instead of
>>    a pointer to the beginning of the array, so that the count
>>    for each element in the array in incremented by the
>>    corresponding callback.
>>
>> That feels a little clunky but is it closer to what you were
>> thinking?
> 
> Well, not really.
> 
> The code is arguably incorrect, but is there anything that does not
> work as expected as a result?  Any functional breakage?  Any
> misleading messages printed?
> 

That's the odd thing; there is no breakage.  Of any sort.

But, no one relies on those values for anything at this point.  I've got a
couple of ideas I'm working on that are easier if it does work right, however.


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ciao,
al
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Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx
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