Re: [PATCH 3/7] staging: ks7010: Remove unnecessary limit checks

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 07:06:22AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:17:36PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 03:03:00PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > > uwrq is an unsigned 32-bit integer, it cannot be less than zero.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c | 6 +++---
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> > > index e96477937f65..0c83d6fe270f 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> > > @@ -1928,7 +1928,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_set_beacon_lost(struct net_device *dev,
> > >  	if (priv->sleep_mode == SLP_SLEEP)
> > >  		return -EPERM;
> > >  	/* for SLEEP MODE */
> > > -	if (*uwrq < BEACON_LOST_COUNT_MIN || *uwrq > BEACON_LOST_COUNT_MAX)
> > > +	if (*uwrq > BEACON_LOST_COUNT_MAX)
> > 
> > I believe Smatch is supposed to ignore this sort of code because
> > comparing "if (foo < 0 || foo > max) " is pretty readable and idiomatic.
> > 
> > Presumably this was so we could redefine BEACON_LOST_COUNT_MIN, but it's
> > fine to unused code.  The define isn't needed at all, so you can
> > delete that as well.
> > 
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> > 
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, I just sent a patch.
> 
> This warning came from GCC as a -Wtype-limit warning. I should have put
> that in the commit message to be more clear. I will keep this in mind
> for the future if I come across any more checks like this with defines.
> 

Anyway, please delete BEACON_LOST_COUNT_MIN entirely.

regards,
dan carpenter