Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net/core: generic support for disabling netdev features down stack

[Jarod Wilson]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Nikolay Aleksandrov
> <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > On 11/03/2015 03:55 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > +#define for_each_netdev_feature(mask_addr, feature)                          \
> > > +     int bit;                                                                \
> > > +     for_each_set_bit(bit, (unsigned long *)mask_addr, NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT) \
> > > +             feature = __NETIF_F_BIT(bit);
> > > +
> > ^
> > This is broken, it will not work for more than a single feature.
>
> Indeed it is.
>
> This is used as:
>
>          for_each_netdev_feature(&upper_disables, feature) {
>          ...
>          }
>
> which expands to:
>
>          int bit;
>          for_each_set_bit(bit, (unsigned long *)mask_addr, NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT)
>                  feature = __NETIF_F_BIT(bit);
>          {
>                  ...
>          }
>
> Note the assignment to "feature" happens outside the {}-delimited block.
> And the block is always executed once.

Bah, crap, I was still staring at the code not seeing it, thank you for 
the detailed cluebat. I'll fix that up right now.

--
Jarod Wilson
jarod@xxxxxxxxxx


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