How to mark suspicious code?
Nicholas Mc Guire
der.herr at hofr.at
Fri Nov 6 00:39:13 EST 2015
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 09:02:58PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:28:31AM +0700, Ivan Safonov wrote:
> > On 11/06/2015 08:58 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > >On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 08:45:46AM +0700, Ivan Safonov wrote:
> > >>Hi all!
> > >>
> > >>How can I mark suspicious code, if I can not fix it?
> > >What do you mean by "mark"?
> > Leave a comment in the code, write a letter to maintainer, etc.
> > What to do?
> > >And also what do you mean by "suspicious"?
> > This is the wrong code that needs to be corrected.
> > >And why can't you fix it?
> > >
> > >we need more details.
> > >
> > >thanks,
> > >
> > >greg k-h
> > Correction of the code will change the behavior of the program.
> > For example:
> >
> > while (1) {
> > if (down_interruptible(&pcmdpriv->cmd_queue_sema))
> > break;
> >
> > if (padapter->bDriverStopped || padapter->bSurpriseRemoved) {
> > ...
> > break;
> > }
> > _next:
> > if (padapter->bDriverStopped || padapter->bSurpriseRemoved) {
> > ...
> > break;
> > }
> > ...
> > if (!pcmd)
> > continue;
> > ...
> > goto _next;
> > }
> > ...
> > up(&pcmdpriv->terminate_cmdthread_sema);
> >
> > Here down_interruptible(sem) in the loop but up(sem) only after the loop.
> > Corrected example below:
don't get it - what does
down_interruptible(&pcmdpriv->cmd_queue_sema)
have to do with:
up(&pcmdpriv->terminate_cmdthread_sema)
its a different sem.
thx!
hofrat
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