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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.9] x86/mm: Placate DEADCODE Coverity warning
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 07:32:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59230474020000780015BBE3@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1495458775-20946-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

>>> On 22.05.17 at 15:12, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
> _PAGE_GNTTAB is only used in debug builds of Xen; in release builds, it has
> the value 0.  Coverity complains that "l1e_get_flags(l1e) & 0" is logically
> dead.
> 
> Add an extra condition into the logic to skip the flag check if _PAGE_GNTTAB
> is 0.

And this helps? To me "if ( 0 && ... )" and "if ( (x & 0) && ... )" look
logically the same (i.e. I'd expect the same warnings to be triggered
[or not]).

> No functional change.
> 
> Coverity-ID: 1362036
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

So provided the change really silences Coverity:
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Jan


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-22 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-22 13:12 [PATCH for-4.9] x86/mm: Placate DEADCODE Coverity warning Andrew Cooper
2017-05-22 13:32 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2017-05-31  8:52   ` Julien Grall
2017-05-31 13:23     ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-01 11:09       ` Julien Grall
2017-06-01 11:15         ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-01 11:18           ` Julien Grall
2017-06-01 11:21             ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-01 17:25               ` Julien Grall
2017-06-01 17:44                 ` Andrew Cooper

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