[libvirt] [PATCH] maint: Fix incorrect parenthesis placement causing true/false assignment
Erik Skultety
eskultet at redhat.com
Tue Sep 5 09:30:47 UTC 2017
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:02:46AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:17:36AM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > There were a few places in our code where the following pattern in 'if'
> > condition occurred:
> >
> > if ((foo = bar() < 0))
> > do something;
> >
> > This patch adjusts the conditions to the expected format:
> >
> > if ((foo = bar()) < 0)
> > do something;
> >
>
> I'd forbid this short ugly notation. Whoever is lazy to write:
>
> ...
> foo = bar();
> if (foo < 0)
> ...
>
> is free to object until I send this e-mail.
>
> > Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1488192
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >
> > This can be especially "fun" if you try to assign multiple RNG devices to a
> > domain and then try to hot-unplug any of them but the first. Anyhow I used the
> > regex below to find these, I haven't spent much time tuning in, so in case
> > you can come up with a better one that yields more results like these I'm all
> > ears :).
> >
> > [[:alnum:]_]+ = [[:print:]]+[^)]) < 0))
> >
>
> I tried some other ones that would find '==' or '!=' or stuff split in
> multiple lines and did not find any.
>
> Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan at redhat.com>
Pushed, thanks.
Erik
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