net: ethernet: starfire: while loop that is never executed

From: Colin King (gmail)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2024 - 18:02:59 EST


Hi,

There is a while-loop in function set_vlan_mode in source drivers/net/ethernet/adaptec/starfire.c that currently never gets executed, the code is as follows:

for_each_set_bit(vid, np->active_vlans, VLAN_N_VID) {
if (vlan_count == 32)
break;
writew(vid, filter_addr);
filter_addr += 16;
vlan_count++;
}
if (vlan_count == 32) {
ret |= PerfectFilterVlan;
while (vlan_count < 32) {
writew(0, filter_addr);
filter_addr += 16;
vlan_count++;
}
}
return ret;

the while (vlan_count < 32) loop will never get executed because the outer if statement is only executed if val_count is equal to 32 hence val_count < 32 will be false. I'm assuming the while loop is filing the unused slots with zero, so I suspect the code should be:

if (vlan_count == 32)
ret |= PerfectFilterVlan;

while (vlan_count < 32) {
writew(0, filter_addr);
filter_addr += 16;
vlan_count++;
}

..however I can't find any info on this H/W and I can't test it, so I'm not confident my assumption here is correct.

Colin