linux-4.14-rc1/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c:541: bad condition ?

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Sep 19 20:37:10 AEST 2017


David Binderman <dcb314 at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hello there,
>
> linux-4.14-rc1/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c:543]: (warning) Identical condition 's1<s2', second condition is always false
>
> Source code is
>
>     if (s1 < s2)
>         return 1;
>     if (s2 > s1)
>         return -1;
>
> Suggest code rework.

Um thanks.

It's trying to implement a sort comparison returning -1, 0, 1.

So it's pretty obviously wrong, but also harmless AFAICS, because it's
just an optimisation before doing a full comparison using memcmp().

So yeah we should fix it, but not an actual bug AFAICS.

cheers


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