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Message ID 20191120135031.270708-1-colin.king@canonical.com (mailing list archive)
State Mainlined
Commit 0e7c353e1828819eb92af0a64fc9b2f4f778b76e
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Series [next] scsi: pm80xx: fix logic to break out of loop when register value is 2 or 3 | expand

Commit Message

Colin King Nov. 20, 2019, 1:50 p.m. UTC
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

The condition (reg_val != 2) || (reg_val != 3) will always be true because
reg_val cannot be equal to two different values at the same time. Fix this
by replacing the || operator with && so that the loop will loop if reg_val
is not a 2 and not a 3 as was originally intended.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Constant expression result")
Fixes: 50dc2f221455 ("scsi: pm80xx: Modified the logic to collect fatal dump")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Jinpu Wang Nov. 22, 2019, 8:53 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 2:50 PM Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> The condition (reg_val != 2) || (reg_val != 3) will always be true because
> reg_val cannot be equal to two different values at the same time. Fix this
> by replacing the || operator with && so that the loop will loop if reg_val
> is not a 2 and not a 3 as was originally intended.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Constant expression result")
> Fixes: 50dc2f221455 ("scsi: pm80xx: Modified the logic to collect fatal dump")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
looks fine. thanks Colin.
Acked-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c
> index 19601138e889..d41908b23760 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c
> @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ ssize_t pm80xx_get_fatal_dump(struct device *cdev,
>                         do {
>                                 reg_val = pm8001_mr32(fatal_table_address,
>                                         MPI_FATAL_EDUMP_TABLE_STATUS);
> -                       } while (((reg_val != 2) || (reg_val != 3)) &&
> +                       } while (((reg_val != 2) && (reg_val != 3)) &&
>                                         time_before(jiffies, start));
>
>                         if (reg_val < 2) {
> --
> 2.24.0
>
Martin K. Petersen Nov. 27, 2019, 2:30 a.m. UTC | #2
Colin,

> The condition (reg_val != 2) || (reg_val != 3) will always be true
> because reg_val cannot be equal to two different values at the same
> time. Fix this by replacing the || operator with && so that the loop
> will loop if reg_val is not a 2 and not a 3 as was originally
> intended.

Applied to 5.5/scsi-queue, thanks!
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c
index 19601138e889..d41908b23760 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@  ssize_t pm80xx_get_fatal_dump(struct device *cdev,
 			do {
 				reg_val = pm8001_mr32(fatal_table_address,
 					MPI_FATAL_EDUMP_TABLE_STATUS);
-			} while (((reg_val != 2) || (reg_val != 3)) &&
+			} while (((reg_val != 2) && (reg_val != 3)) &&
 					time_before(jiffies, start));
 
 			if (reg_val < 2) {