[PATCH 4.9 029/102] mac80211: Fix clang warning about constant operand in logical operation

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Apr 06 2018 - 10:47:03 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 93f56de259376d7e4fff2b2d104082e1fa66e237 upstream.

When clang detects a non-boolean constant in a logical operation it
generates a 'constant-logical-operand' warning. In
ieee80211_try_rate_control_ops_get() the result of strlen(<const str>)
is used in a logical operation, clang resolves the expression to an
(integer) constant at compile time when clang's builtin strlen function
is used.

Change the condition to check for strlen() > 0 to make the constant
operand boolean and thus avoid the warning.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
net/mac80211/rate.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/rate.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rate.c
@@ -173,9 +173,11 @@ ieee80211_rate_control_ops_get(const cha
/* try default if specific alg requested but not found */
ops = ieee80211_try_rate_control_ops_get(ieee80211_default_rc_algo);

- /* try built-in one if specific alg requested but not found */
- if (!ops && strlen(CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT))
+ /* Note: check for > 0 is intentional to avoid clang warning */
+ if (!ops && (strlen(CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT) > 0))
+ /* try built-in one if specific alg requested but not found */
ops = ieee80211_try_rate_control_ops_get(CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT);
+
kernel_param_unlock(THIS_MODULE);

return ops;