Re: [PATCH 19/20] media: platform: vpdma.c: fix comparison to bool

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Aug 11 2020 - 14:34:16 EST


On Tue, 2020-08-11 at 07:57 -0500, Benoit Parrot wrote:
> Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on Fri [2020-Aug-07 05:35:46 -0300]:
> > From: "Daniel W. S. Almeida" <dwlsalmeida@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Fix the following coccinelle report:
> >
> > drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/vpdma.c:946:5-26: WARNING:
> > Comparison to bool
> >
> > Found using - Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr)
[]
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/vpdma.c b/drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/vpdma.c
[]
> > @@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ int vpdma_hwlist_alloc(struct vpdma_data *vpdma, void *priv)
> >
> > spin_lock_irqsave(&vpdma->lock, flags);
> > for (i = 0; i < VPDMA_MAX_NUM_LIST &&
> > - vpdma->hwlist_used[i] == true; i++)
> > + vpdma->hwlist_used[i]; i++)
> > ;


A more typical way to write this loop is
not testing i < VPDMA_MAX_NUM_LIST multiple
times like the below:
---
drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/vpdma.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/vpdma.c b/drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/vpdma.c
index 2e5148ae7a0f..5893917ce50d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/vpdma.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/vpdma.c
@@ -942,14 +942,13 @@ int vpdma_hwlist_alloc(struct vpdma_data *vpdma, void *priv)
unsigned long flags;

spin_lock_irqsave(&vpdma->lock, flags);
- for (i = 0; i < VPDMA_MAX_NUM_LIST &&
- vpdma->hwlist_used[i] == true; i++)
- ;
-
- if (i < VPDMA_MAX_NUM_LIST) {
+ for (i = 0; i < VPDMA_MAX_NUM_LIST; i++) {
+ if (vpdma->hwlist_used[i])
+ continue;
list_num = i;
vpdma->hwlist_used[i] = true;
vpdma->hwlist_priv[i] = priv;
+ break;
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vpdma->lock, flags);