Re: ath11k: initialize wmi config based on hw_params

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 11:06:45 EST


Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> static analysis with Coverity has detected a duplicated assignment issue
> with the following commit:
>
> commit 2d4bcbed5b7d53e19fc158885e7340b464b64507
> Author: Carl Huang <cjhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Aug 17 13:31:51 2020 +0300
>
> ath11k: initialize wmi config based on hw_params
>
> The analysis is as follows:
>
>
> 74 config->beacon_tx_offload_max_vdev = 0x2;
> 75 config->num_multicast_filter_entries = 0x20;
> 76 config->num_wow_filters = 0x16;
>
> Unused value (UNUSED_VALUE)
> assigned_value: Assigning value 1U to config->num_keep_alive_pattern
> here, but that stored value is overwritten before it can be used.
> 77 config->num_keep_alive_pattern = 0x1;
>
> value_overwrite: Overwriting previous write to
> config->num_keep_alive_pattern with value 0U.
>
> 78 config->num_keep_alive_pattern = 0;
>
>
> I'm not sure if one of these assignments is redundant, or perhaps one of
> the assignments is meant to be setting a different structure element.

0x1 assignment should be removed, I'll send a patch.

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