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Unverified Commit c90012ac authored by Aleksa Sarai's avatar Aleksa Sarai Committed by Christian Brauner
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lib: test_user_copy: style cleanup



While writing the tests for copy_struct_from_user(), I used a construct
that Linus doesn't appear to be too fond of:

On 2019-10-04, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Hmm. That code is ugly, both before and after the fix.
>
> This just doesn't make sense for so many reasons:
>
>         if ((ret |= test(umem_src == NULL, "kmalloc failed")))
>
> where the insanity comes from
>
>  - why "|=" when you know that "ret" was zero before (and it had to
>    be, for the test to make sense)
>
>  - why do this as a single line anyway?
>
>  - don't do the stupid "double parenthesis" to hide a warning. Make it
>    use an actual comparison if you add a layer of parentheses.

So instead, use a bog-standard check that isn't nearly as ugly.

Fixes: 34111582 ("usercopy: Add parentheses around assignment in test_copy_struct_from_user")
Fixes: f5a1a536 ("lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191005233028.18566-1-cyphar@cyphar.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
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