Re: [PATCH 23/23] locktorture: Check the correct variable for allocation failure
From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Oct 10 2023 - 10:07:12 EST
On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 06:55:40AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 01:59:21PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > There is a typo so this checks the wrong variable. "chains" plural vs
> > "chain" singular. We already know that "chains" is non-zero.
> >
> > Fixes: 7f993623e9eb ("locktorture: Add call_rcu_chains module parameter")
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> A name change to increase the Hamming distance would of course also be
> good, though less urgent. ;-)
"Hamming distance" is such a great phrase. I'm going to use that every
time I complain about confusingly similar variable names going forward.
regards,
dan carpenter