Re: [PATCH 3/3 v5] USB: Fix device driver race

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 05:24:20PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 10:59 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> <snip>
> > > +	udev = to_usb_device(dev);
> > > +	if (usb_device_match_id(udev, new_udriver->id_table) == NULL &&
> > > +	    (!new_udriver->match || new_udriver->match(udev) != 0))
> > > +		return 0;
> > > +
> > > +	(void)!device_reprobe(dev);
> > 
> > What's that '!' doing hiding in there?  It doesn't affect the final 
> > outcome, but it sure looks weird -- if people notice it at all.
> 
> It's how we stop gcc from complaining about the warn_unused_result
> attribute on device_reprobe()... (void) is enough with clang, but not
> with gcc.

Hmmm.  Maybe this is an indication that device_reprobe() doesn't really 
need to be __must_check.

Greg, do you know why it's annotated this way?

Alan Stern




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