Re: [PATCH v4 01/17] x86/mpx: Do not use SIB index if index points to R/ESP

Ricardo Neri <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:17:12 -0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-msdos,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <1487888232.115017.4.camel@ranerica-desktop>
On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 08:24 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:36:50PM -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> > +			/*
> > +			 * A negative offset generally means a error, except
> > +			 * -EDOM, which means that the contents of the register
> > +			 * should not be used as index.
> > +			 */
> >  			if (indx_offset < 0)
> > -				goto out_err;
> > +				if (indx_offset == -EDOM)
> > +					indx = 0;
> > +				else
> > +					goto out_err;
> > +			else
> > +				indx = regs_get_register(regs, indx_offset);
> 
> Kernel coding style requires more brackets than are strictly required by
> C, any block longer than 1 line needs then. Also, if one leg of a
> conditional needs them, then they should be on both legs.
> 
> Your code has many such instances, please change them all.

Will do. Sorry for the noise. These instances escaped the checkpatch
script.

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo