Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: add spaces around '&' in netlink_recvmsg()

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: add spaces around '&' in netlink_recvmsg()
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 13:51:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200907135102.27e07aff@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200907132144.3144704-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com>

On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 21:21:44 +0800 Yang Yingliang wrote:
> Spaces preferred around '&'.

This in itself is not a sufficient justification to touch code that
pre-dates the git era.

IMHO '&' without spaces around it is particularly hard to read, and 
the code is actively used, which makes the change worth considering.

But I'm not sure why you decided to fix recvmsg but not sendmsg.

Please provide a better commit message.

> diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> index d2d1448274f5..5a86bf4f80b1 100644
> --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> @@ -1929,12 +1929,12 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len,
>  	struct scm_cookie scm;
>  	struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
>  	struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(sk);
> -	int noblock = flags&MSG_DONTWAIT;
> +	int noblock = flags & MSG_DONTWAIT;
>  	size_t copied;
>  	struct sk_buff *skb, *data_skb;
>  	int err, ret;
>  
> -	if (flags&MSG_OOB)
> +	if (flags & MSG_OOB)
>  		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  
>  	copied = 0;