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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - common module
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On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 07:23 +0100, Hansjoerg Lipp wrote:

> + struct semaphore sem; /* locks this structure:
> + * connected is not changed,
> + * hardware_up is not changed,
> + * MState is not changed to or from
> + * MS_LOCKED */
> +

please turn this into a mutex



> +/* handling routines for sk_buff */
> +/* ============================= */
> +
> +/* private version of __skb_put()
> + * append 'len' bytes to the content of 'skb', already knowing that the
> + * existing buffer can accomodate them
> + * returns a pointer to the location where the new bytes should be copied to
> + * This function does not take any locks so it must be called with the
> + * appropriate locks held only.
> + */
> +static inline unsigned char *gigaset_skb_put_quick(struct sk_buff *skb,
> + unsigned int len)
> +{
> + unsigned char *tmp = skb->tail;
> + /*SKB_LINEAR_ASSERT(skb);*/ /* not needed here */
> + skb->tail += len;
> + skb->len += len;
> + return tmp;
> +}


this looks truely scary and wrong

> +/* append received bytes to inbuf */
> +static inline int gigaset_fill_inbuf(struct inbuf_t *inbuf,
> + const unsigned char *src,
> + unsigned numbytes)
> +{
> + unsigned n, head, tail, bytesleft;
> +
> + gig_dbg(DEBUG_INTR, "received %u bytes", numbytes);
> +
> + if (!numbytes)
[snip 30 lines]

isn't this function rather big to be inlined ?
> +
> +/*======================================================================
> + Prototypes of internal functions
> + */
> +
> +static struct cardstate *alloc_cs(struct gigaset_driver *drv);
> +static void free_cs(struct cardstate *cs);
> +static void make_valid(struct cardstate *cs, unsigned mask);
> +static void make_invalid(struct cardstate *cs, unsigned mask);

most of the time these can just go away by ordering the functions better

> +
> +void gigaset_dbg_buffer(enum debuglevel level, const unsigned char *msg,
> + size_t len, const unsigned char *buf, int from_user)


such "from_user" parameter is highly evil, and also breaks sparse and
friends.. (btw please run sparse on the code and fix all warnings)




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