Re: [PATCH linux-next] s390:fix Coccinelle warnings

[Vineeth Vijayan]

I am a fan of Coccinelle fixes. But, here i think we need to do more 
work than just fixing it to
get rid of the warnings. I agree with Heiko. May be we should re-write 
this entire function and
make it readable.

Nack.


On 8/23/21 8:07 PM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 07:51:59PM -0700, jing yangyang wrote:
> > WARNING !A || A && B is equivalent to !A || B
> >
> > This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> >
> > Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: jing yangyang <jing.yangyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   arch/s390/include/asm/scsw.h | 5 ++---
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/scsw.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/scsw.h
> > index a7c3ccf..754122d 100644
> > --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/scsw.h
> > +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/scsw.h
> > @@ -691,9 +691,8 @@ static inline int scsw_tm_is_valid_pno(union scsw *scsw)
> >   {
> >   	return (scsw->tm.fctl != 0) &&
> >   	       (scsw->tm.stctl & SCSW_STCTL_STATUS_PEND) &&
> > -	       (!(scsw->tm.stctl & SCSW_STCTL_INTER_STATUS) ||
> > -		 ((scsw->tm.stctl & SCSW_STCTL_INTER_STATUS) &&
> > -		  (scsw->tm.actl & SCSW_ACTL_SUSPENDED)));
> > +		(!(scsw->tm.stctl & SCSW_STCTL_INTER_STATUS) ||
> > +		(scsw->tm.actl & SCSW_ACTL_SUSPENDED));
> This turns something unreadable into something else which is
> unreadable. It's up to Vineeth to decide what to do with this.
>
> However I'd prefer if this would be changed into something readable,
> maybe as addon patch, like e.g.:
>
> static inline bool scsw_tm_is_valid_pno(union scsw *scsw)
> {
> 	if (scsw->tm.fctl == 0)
> 		return false;
> 	if (!(scsw->tm.stctl & SCSW_STCTL_STATUS_PEND))
> 		return false;
> 	if (!(scsw->tm.stctl & SCSW_STCTL_INTER_STATUS))
> 		return false;
> 	if (scsw->tm.actl & SCSW_ACTL_SUSPENDED)
> 		return false;
> 	return true;
> }
>
> Chances are that the above is wrong... it's just to illustrate ;)