From 1a7809e3499921a016d203b9ee51a77d3cc1dc98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:39:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ide: re-code ide_fixstring() loop to be less evil On Friday 25 July 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Ben Dooks wrote: > > > > personally, i would much prefer to see the loop being less evil > > like: > > > > for (p = s; p < end; p += 2) > > be16_to_cpus((u16 *)p); > > Well, in this case, the code actually depends on 'p' being back at the > start of the buffer by the end of it all, so it would need some more > changes than that. > > But yes, I applied David's patch, but I _also_ suspect that we would be > better off without code that does horrid things like casts and assignments > inside the function arguments. > > So it would be nice to re-code that loop to be more readable. But due to > the reliance of 'p' being 's' after the loop, the minimal patch would be > something like the appended. > > Bartlomiej - take this or not, I'm not going to commit it - I haven't > tested it, nor do I even have any machines that would trigger it. So this > is more a "maybe something like this" than anything else. From: Linus Torvalds CC: Ben Dooks Cc: David Miller Cc: harvey.harrison@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- drivers/ide/ide-iops.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c b/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c index 8cfa6125c7a..004803030f6 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c @@ -423,14 +423,16 @@ void ide_fix_driveid(u16 *id) void ide_fixstring (u8 *s, const int bytecount, const int byteswap) { - u8 *p = s, *end = &s[bytecount & ~1]; /* bytecount must be even */ + u8 *p, *end = &s[bytecount & ~1]; /* bytecount must be even */ if (byteswap) { /* convert from big-endian to host byte order */ - for (p = end ; p != s;) - be16_to_cpus((u16 *)(p -= 2)); + for (p = s ; p != end ; p += 2) + be16_to_cpus((u16 *) p); } + /* strip leading blanks */ + p = s; while (s != end && *s == ' ') ++s; /* compress internal blanks and strip trailing blanks */ -- 2.41.1