Re: [PATCH net-next] e100: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning in e100_load_ucode_wait

From: Jeff Kirsher
Date: Tue Nov 20 2018 - 19:03:22 EST


On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 20:48 +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
> Fix a static code checker warning:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1349
> e100_load_ucode_wait() warn: passing zero to 'PTR_ERR'
>
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

This looks fine, I am just concerned of the regression testing needed on
hardware that is almost 20 years old now. The availability of the hardware
for testing is also a concern.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> index 7c4b554..736115b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> @@ -1345,8 +1345,8 @@ static inline int e100_load_ucode_wait(struct nic
> *nic)
>
> fw = e100_request_firmware(nic);
> /* If it's NULL, then no ucode is required */
> - if (!fw || IS_ERR(fw))
> - return PTR_ERR(fw);
> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(fw))
> + return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(fw);
>
> if ((err = e100_exec_cb(nic, (void *)fw, e100_setup_ucode)))
> netif_err(nic, probe, nic->netdev,

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