Re: [PATCH 2/2] pipe: Fix missing mask update after pipe_wait() [ver #2]

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 2:30 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> -               struct pipe_buffer *buf = &pipe->bufs[(head - 1) & mask];
> +               struct pipe_buffer *buf =
> +                       &pipe->bufs[(head - 1) & (pipe->ring_size - 1)];

I changed the two occurrences of this to use a local temporary "mask"
variable, to avoid the long lines.

It's no longer _caching_ the value, but it makes the code more legible.

              Linus