[rds-devel] [PATCH 05/12] RDS: Fix ordering in a conditional

Andy Grover andy.grover at oracle.com
Thu Apr 9 17:09:40 PDT 2009


Putting the constant first is a supposed "best practice" that actually makes
the code harder to read.

Thanks to Roland Dreier for finding a bug in this "simple, obviously correct"
patch.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover at oracle.com>
---
 net/rds/rdma.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/rdma.c b/net/rds/rdma.c
index eaeeb91..e390dc7 100644
--- a/net/rds/rdma.c
+++ b/net/rds/rdma.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static int rds_pin_pages(unsigned long user_addr, unsigned int nr_pages,
 			     nr_pages, write, 0, pages, NULL);
 	up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 
-	if (0 <= ret && (unsigned) ret < nr_pages) {
+	if (ret >= 0 && ret < nr_pages) {
 		while (ret--)
 			put_page(pages[ret]);
 		ret = -EFAULT;
-- 
1.5.6.3




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