Re: [PATCH] driver-core: fix odd_ptr_err.cocci warnings

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Thu Nov 10 2016 - 15:23:01 EST




On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> PTR_ERR should access the value just tested by IS_ERR
> >>
> >> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/tests/odd_ptr_err.cocci
> >>
> >> CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> 0-day warning related to the following commit:
> >>
> >> tree:
> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
> >> driver-core-testing
> >> head: dfea747d2aba77443acf7ce6fa37caa729bd034c
> >> commit: 79543cf2b18ea4a35f8864849d7ad8882ea8a23d [10/14] driver-core: add
> >> test module for asynchronous probing
> >>
> >> I haven't checked the context in detail.
> >>
> >>
> >> test_async_driver_probe.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> --- a/drivers/base/test/test_async_driver_probe.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/base/test/test_async_driver_probe.c
> >> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static int __init test_async_probe_init(
> >> sync_dev_1 = platform_device_register_simple("test_sync_driver",
> >> 1,
> >> NULL, 0);
> >> if (IS_ERR(async_dev_1)) {
> >> - error = PTR_ERR(sync_dev_1);
> >> + error = PTR_ERR(async_dev_1);
> >
> >
> > NAK. It should be "if (IS_ERR(sync_dev_1)) {"

Indeed, I should have noticed that. Will you make the fix, or should I
revise the proposed patch?

julia

> >
> >>
> >> pr_err("failed to create sync_dev_1: %d", error);
> >> goto err_unregister_sync_driver;
> >> }
> >
> >
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