RE: [PATCH] usbip: vhci_hcd: Mark expected switch fall-through

From: David Laight
Date: Mon Apr 29 2019 - 11:35:02 EST


From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
> Sent: 29 April 2019 16:06
> On 4/29/19 9:44 AM, David Laight wrote:
> > From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
> >> Sent: 29 April 2019 15:40
> >> In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch
> >> cases where we are expecting to fall through.
> > ...
> >> diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c
> >> index 667d9c0ec905..000ab7225717 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c
> >> @@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ static int vhci_hub_control(struct usb_hcd *hcd, u16 typeReq, u16 wValue,
> >> case USB_PORT_FEAT_U1_TIMEOUT:
> >> usbip_dbg_vhci_rh(
> >> " SetPortFeature: USB_PORT_FEAT_U1_TIMEOUT\n");
> >> + /* Fall through */
> >> case USB_PORT_FEAT_U2_TIMEOUT:
> >> usbip_dbg_vhci_rh(
> >> " SetPortFeature: USB_PORT_FEAT_U2_TIMEOUT\n");
> >
> > That doesn't look right, both debug messages seem to get printed.
> >
>
> At first sight, I thought the same way, then I took a look into
> commit:
>
> 1c9de5bf428612458427943b724bea51abde520a
>
> and noticed that the original developer properly added fall-through
> comments in other places in the same switch() code, that gave me the
> impression he knew what he was doing; then I noticed the following
> error message in case USB_PORT_FEAT_U2_TIMEOUT:
>
> if (hcd->speed != HCD_USB3) {
> pr_err("USB_PORT_FEAT_U1/2_TIMEOUT req not "
> "supported for USB 2.0 roothub\n");
> goto error;
> }
>
> this error message is what makes me think the fall-through is
> intentional; otherwise I think it would look like this instead:
>
> if (hcd->speed != HCD_USB3) {
> pr_err("USB_PORT_FEAT_U2_TIMEOUT req not "
> "supported for USB 2.0 roothub\n");
> goto error;
> }

God, that code is truly ugly :-(

It starts off bad with all those 'u16' parameters - they'll require a
mask operation somewhere.

Then we have the classic:
wIndex = ((__u8)(wIndex & 0xff));
Some compilers have been known to and with 0xff twice for code like that.
Since the target is u16 there could be a 3rd mask with 0xffff on non-x86.

I like to put a blank line before 'case' lines - the only ones in that
function are in the middle of nested case blocks!

If you have to rely on the usbip_dbg_vhci_rh() debug lines you'll
wish they contained more context!
vhci_hub_control() has one early on; the rest could be killed -
they contain no more information.

David

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