From ac7b9004909d03d67016368093e81d37cae72895 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:11:59 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] generic swap(): don't return a value from swap()
The swap() macro is accidentally retuning the value of its first argument.
Change it into a doesn't-return-anything macro before someone goes and
relies upon this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/linux/kernel.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 343df9ef24123..7fa371898e3e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -480,7 +480,8 @@ static inline char *pack_hex_byte(char *buf, u8 byte)
/*
* swap - swap value of @a and @b
*/
-#define swap(a, b) ({ typeof(a) __tmp = (a); (a) = (b); (b) = __tmp; })
+#define swap(a, b) \
+ do { typeof(a) __tmp = (a); (a) = (b); (b) = __tmp; } while (0)
/**
* container_of - cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure
--
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