Re: [PATCH] staging: gdm724x: Add parenthesis to Macro arguments

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Apr 03 2019 - 00:26:37 EST


On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 10:04:05PM -0300, Andre Dainez wrote:
> Fix checkpatch errors:
>
> CHECK: Macro argument 'len' may be better as '(len)' to avoid precedence issues
> CHECK: Macro argument 'nlh' may be better as '(nlh)' to avoid precedence issues
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Dainez <andredainez@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/gdm724x/netlink_k.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm724x/netlink_k.c b/drivers/staging/gdm724x/netlink_k.c
> index 92440c3..36d88f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/gdm724x/netlink_k.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/gdm724x/netlink_k.c
> @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(netlink_mutex);
> #define ND_NLMSG_SPACE(len) (NLMSG_SPACE(len) + ND_IFINDEX_LEN)
> #define ND_NLMSG_DATA(nlh) ((void *)((char *)NLMSG_DATA(nlh) + \
> ND_IFINDEX_LEN))
> -#define ND_NLMSG_S_LEN(len) (len + ND_IFINDEX_LEN)
> -#define ND_NLMSG_R_LEN(nlh) (nlh->nlmsg_len - ND_IFINDEX_LEN)
> +#define ND_NLMSG_S_LEN(len) ((len) + ND_IFINDEX_LEN)

This makes sense, but:

> +#define ND_NLMSG_R_LEN(nlh) ((nlh)->nlmsg_len - ND_IFINDEX_LEN)

That does not, correct?