Re: [PATCH 4.19 6/6] Input: touchscreen - avoid bitwise vs logical OR warning

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Dec 20 2021 - 05:59:42 EST


On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 03:41:19PM +0100, Anders Roxell wrote:
> From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit a02dcde595f7cbd240ccd64de96034ad91cffc40 upstream.
>
> A new warning in clang points out a few places in this driver where a
> bitwise OR is being used with boolean types:
>
> drivers/input/touchscreen.c:81:17: warning: use of bitwise '|' with boolean operands [-Wbitwise-instead-of-logical]
> data_present = touchscreen_get_prop_u32(dev, "touchscreen-min-x",
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> This use of a bitwise OR is intentional, as bitwise operations do not
> short circuit, which allows all the calls to touchscreen_get_prop_u32()
> to happen so that the last parameter is initialized while coalescing the
> results of the calls to make a decision after they are all evaluated.
>
> To make this clearer to the compiler, use the '|=' operator to assign
> the result of each touchscreen_get_prop_u32() call to data_present,
> which keeps the meaning of the code the same but makes it obvious that
> every one of these calls is expected to happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211014205757.3474635-1-nathan@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/input/touchscreen/of_touchscreen.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Also needed in 5.10.y and 5.4.y.

Please be more careful next time.