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SubjectRe: tracing: Add support for dynamic strings to synthetic events
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 14:08:38 +0100
Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Static analysis with Coverity has detected a duplicated condition in an
> if statement in the following commit in source
> kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
>
> commit bd82631d7ccdc894af2738e47abcba2cb6e7dea9
> Author: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
> Date: Sun Oct 4 17:14:06 2020 -0500
>
> tracing: Add support for dynamic strings to synthetic events
>
> Analysis is as follows:
>
> 493 for (i = 0; i < event->n_fields; i++) {
>
> Same on both sides (CONSTANT_EXPRESSION_RESULT)
> pointless_expression: The expression event->fields[i]->is_dynamic &&
> event->fields[i]->is_dynamic does not accomplish anything because it
> evaluates to either of its identical operands, event->fields[i]->is_dynamic.
>
> Did you intend the operands to be different?
>
> 494 if (event->fields[i]->is_dynamic &&
> 495 event->fields[i]->is_dynamic)

Bah, I believe that was suppose to be:

if (event->fields[i]->is_string &&
event->fields[i]->is_dynamic)

I'll go and fix that.

-- Steve

> 496 pos += snprintf(buf + pos, LEN_OR_ZERO,
> 497 ", __get_str(%s)",
> event->fields[i]->name);
> 498 else
> 499 pos += snprintf(buf + pos, LEN_OR_ZERO,
> 500 ", REC->%s",
> event->fields[i]->name);
> 501 }
>
> Colin

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