Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:28:38 +0200 | | From | Harald Welte <> | | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BUG/PATCH/RFC] Oops while completing async USB via usbdevio |
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 04:03:13PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Harald Welte wrote: > > > + if ((!info || ((unsigned long)info != 1 && > > + (unsigned long)info != 2 && SI_FROMUSER(info))) > > + && (euid ^ p->suid) && (euid ^ p->uid) > > + && (uid ^ p->suid) && (uid ^ p->uid)) { > > No doubt this was copied from somewhere else. But why do people go to the > effort of confusing readers by using "^" instead of "!="? These aren't > bit-oriented values.
Well, I'd rather keep the new code as close as possible to the original check_permission() code, to make it obvious that it's basically doing the same thing. I think if you want to clean this up, it could be an additional patch on top of mine (once there is a final version and it gets merged.
> Alan Stern
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