Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: make coverity happy

From: Fabio Estevam
Date: Mon Apr 06 2020 - 10:51:09 EST


On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 2:50 PM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Coverity reports the following:
>
> var_compare_op: Comparing chan to null implies that chan might be null.
>
> 1234 if (chan)
> 1235 dmaengine_terminate_all(chan);
> 1236
>
> Dereference after null check (FORWARD_NULL)
> var_deref_op: Dereferencing null pointer chan.
>
> 1237 dma_unmap_sg(chan->device->dev, &sport->rx_sgl, 1, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>
> Technically, this is correct. But lpuart_dma_rx_free() is guarded by
> lpuart_dma_rx_use which is only true if there is a dma channel, see
> lpuart_rx_dma_startup(). In any way, this looks bogus. So remove
> the superfluous "if (chan)" check and make coverity happy.
>
> Fixes: a092ab25fdaa ("tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix DMA mapping")
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>