Re: [PATCH] locks: remove trailing semicolon in macro definition

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Nov 27 2020 - 22:25:46 EST


On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:07:07AM -0800, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> +++ b/fs/fcntl.c
> @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(fcntl64, unsigned int, fd, unsigned int, cmd,
> (dst)->l_whence = (src)->l_whence; \
> (dst)->l_start = (src)->l_start; \
> (dst)->l_len = (src)->l_len; \
> - (dst)->l_pid = (src)->l_pid;
> + (dst)->l_pid = (src)->l_pid

This should be wrapped in a do { } while (0).

Look, this warning is clearly great at finding smelly code, but the
fixes being generated to shut up the warning are low quality.