Re: [PATCH 2/2] usb: ehci: Prevent possible modulo by zero

[Khalid Masum]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 11:56 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>

> Odd tag format, is that in the documentation?

You are right. I should have used "Addresses-coverity".

> You only ever use likely/unlikely if you can document how it matters
> with a benchmark or other way to notice the difference.  Otherwise let
> the compiler and the CPU do their magic, they know how to do this better
> than us.

Thanks for the important information.
>
> > +             return -1;

I noticed. The function returns -1 on failure, everywhere so I used that.
I guess making them return correct error numbers using macros would
be a patch.
>
> A real error number should be returned here if this was valid.
>
> But as Alan said, coverity is often wrong, and unless you can prove
> otherwise, this patch isn't valid.

Got you.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

  -- Khalid Masum