Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ras: fix an off-by-one error in __find_elem()
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Apr 21 2019 - 04:29:31 EST
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 12:15:26PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> Yes, one is V1 and the other is V2. Is it hard to understand V2 is to
> replace V1?
Well, looking at these two very different fixes, it made me think that
you don't really know what you're doing. So I went and did the Knuth's
version just so that I can analyze and understand the issue myself.
The final result ended up needing *both* the index fix *and* removed the
trailing noodling code after the loop which looked fishy at best and I
wanted it gone anyway.
So in the end:
1. your first fix was correct but incomplete
2. your second was replaced by a better version of the whole thing
So the final result is a lot cleaner and straight-forward. And it is
only 29 lines and I don't see a problem with it going to stable.
And I as author and maintainer of this code have very much the
prerogative to decide which way to go, TYVM. No matter how much you
passive-aggressively bitch. Thanks to your last mail, I won't have to
make this choice anymore.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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