Re: [PATCH v2] x86/microcode: Silence a static checker warning

[Dan Carpenter]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:58:44PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:55:10PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > This is just cleanups and doesn't change the behavior.
> 
> You can't return from in the middle of the loop just because the
> allocation fails.
> 

I understand that.

> > The static checker is still going to complain about the error pointer
> > from the loop.
> 
> Please drop this argument about the static checker which you write. I'm
> certainly not changing code just because some tool complains.

Sure.  But the point is the same...  The "p" is an error pointer at the
end of the function.

> 
> > Perhaps we should only set prev_found if the memdup_patch()
> > inside the loop succeeds?
> 
> This not why we set prev_found.

Sure.

regards,
dan carpenter