Re: [PATCH 3/7] staging: ks7010: Remove unnecessary limit checks

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon May 14 2018 - 09:18:03 EST


On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 03:03:00PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> uwrq is an unsigned 32-bit integer, it cannot be less than zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> index e96477937f65..0c83d6fe270f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> @@ -1928,7 +1928,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_set_beacon_lost(struct net_device *dev,
> if (priv->sleep_mode == SLP_SLEEP)
> return -EPERM;
> /* for SLEEP MODE */
> - if (*uwrq < BEACON_LOST_COUNT_MIN || *uwrq > BEACON_LOST_COUNT_MAX)
> + if (*uwrq > BEACON_LOST_COUNT_MAX)

I believe Smatch is supposed to ignore this sort of code because
comparing "if (foo < 0 || foo > max) " is pretty readable and idiomatic.

Presumably this was so we could redefine BEACON_LOST_COUNT_MIN, but it's
fine to unused code. The define isn't needed at all, so you can
delete that as well.

regards,
dan carpenter