Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: do not use assignment in if condition

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Jun 22 2018 - 06:54:31 EST


On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 13:40 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 08:22:30PM +0200, Michael Straube wrote:
> > Fix checkpatch error 'do not use assignment in if condition'.
[]
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> > index e55895632921..87a4ced41028 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> > +++ b/
> > @@ -1181,9 +1181,8 @@ void rtw_macaddr_cfg(struct device *dev, u8 *mac_addr)
> > (mac[3] == 0xff) && (mac[4] == 0xff) && (mac[5] == 0xff)) ||
> > ((mac[0] == 0x00) && (mac[1] == 0x00) && (mac[2] == 0x00) &&
> > (mac[3] == 0x00) && (mac[4] == 0x00) && (mac[5] == 0x00))) {

Should also use is_broadcast_ether_addr and is_zero_ether_addr

> > - if (np &&
> > - (addr = of_get_property(np, "local-mac-address", &len)) &&
> > - len == ETH_ALEN) {
> > + addr = of_get_property(np, "local-mac-address", &len);
> > + if (np && addr && len == ETH_ALEN) {
>
> You can remove the "np" check.
>
> if (addr && len == ETH_ALEN) {

It looks more like the rewrite is incorrect
as np is tested before of_get_property

It could be written something like:

if (is_broadcast_ether_addr(mac) || is_zero_ether_addr(mac)) {
bool assigned = false;

if (np) {
addr = of_get_property(np, "local-mac-address", &len);
if (len == ETH_ALEN) {
memcpy(mac_addr, addr, ETH_ALEN);
assigned = true;
}
}
if (!assigned) {
mac_addr[0] = 0x00;
mac_addr[1] = ...
}
}