[PATCH] net/ipv4: fib_trie: Avoid cryptic ternary expressions

From: Matthias Kaehlcke
Date: Tue Jun 18 2019 - 17:19:50 EST


empty_child_inc/dec() use the ternary operator for conditional
operations. The conditions involve the post/pre in/decrement
operator and the operation is only performed when the condition
is *not* true. This is hard to parse for humans, use a regular
'if' construct instead and perform the in/decrement separately.

This also fixes two warnings that are emitted about the value
of the ternary expression being unused, when building the kernel
with clang + "kbuild: Remove unnecessary -Wno-unused-value"
(https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1089869/):

CC net/ipv4/fib_trie.o
net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:351:2: error: expression result unused [-Werror,-Wunused-value]
++tn_info(n)->empty_children ? : ++tn_info(n)->full_children;

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
I have no good understanding of the fib_trie code, but the
disentangled code looks wrong, and it should be equivalent to the
cryptic version, unless I messed it up. In empty_child_inc()
'full_children' is only incremented when 'empty_children' is -1. I
suspect a bug in the cryptic code, but am surprised why it hasn't
blown up yet. Or is it intended behavior that is just
super-counterintuitive?

For now I'm leaving it at disentangling the cryptic expressions,
if there is a bug we can discuss what action to take.
---
net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
index 868c74771fa9..cf7788e336b7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
@@ -338,12 +338,18 @@ static struct tnode *tnode_alloc(int bits)

static inline void empty_child_inc(struct key_vector *n)
{
- ++tn_info(n)->empty_children ? : ++tn_info(n)->full_children;
+ tn_info(n)->empty_children++;
+
+ if (!tn_info(n)->empty_children)
+ tn_info(n)->full_children++;
}

static inline void empty_child_dec(struct key_vector *n)
{
- tn_info(n)->empty_children-- ? : tn_info(n)->full_children--;
+ if (!tn_info(n)->empty_children)
+ tn_info(n)->full_children--;
+
+ tn_info(n)->empty_children--;
}

static struct key_vector *leaf_new(t_key key, struct fib_alias *fa)
--
2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog