Re: [PATCH] selftests: vDSO: parse: warning: fix assignment as a condition

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Fri Nov 05 2021 - 16:17:32 EST


On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 9:28 AM Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When building selftests/vDSO with clang the following warning shows up:
>
> clang -std=gnu99 -Wno-pointer-sign vdso_test_gettimeofday.c parse_vdso.c -o /home/anders/.cache/tuxmake/builds/current/kselftest/vDSO/vdso_test_gettimeofday
> parse_vdso.c:65:9: warning: using the result of an assignment as a condition without parentheses [-Wparentheses]
> if (g = h & 0xf0000000)
> ~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Rework to a parentheses before doing the check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the patch!
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/parse_vdso.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/parse_vdso.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/parse_vdso.c
> index 413f75620a35..b47b721a4ea4 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/parse_vdso.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/parse_vdso.c
> @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static unsigned long elf_hash(const unsigned char *name)
> while (*name)
> {
> h = (h << 4) + *name++;
> - if (g = h & 0xf0000000)
> + if ((g = (h & 0xf0000000)))
> h ^= g >> 24;
> h &= ~g;
> }
> --
> 2.33.0
>


--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers