Re: Coverity: gpmc_is_valid_waitpin(): Control flow issues

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Tue Nov 08 2022 - 04:39:59 EST


On 08/11/2022 09:02, Niedermayr, BENEDIKT wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-11-07 at 10:56 +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:
>>
>> On 07/11/2022 10:53, Roger Quadros wrote:
>>> Hi Benedikt,
>>>
>>> On 04/11/2022 21:33, coverity-bot wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by
>>>> Coverity from a scan of next-20221104 as part of the linux-next scan project:
>>>> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscan.coverity.com%2Fprojects%2Flinux-next-weekly-scan&data=05%7C01%7Cbenedikt.niedermayr%40siemens.com%7C1a25cc8704524f24224108dac09dfab7%7C38ae3bcd95794fd4addab42e1495d55a%7C1%7C0%7C638034081994087461%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=W1KlBKg9nwEDfFAbqW6Jw7v1d46HQLj8RX8wlZ9RHyc%3D&reserved=0
>>>>
>>>> You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified
>>>> lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits:
>>>>
>>>> Wed Nov 2 10:02:39 2022 -0400
>>>> 89aed3cd5cb9 ("memory: omap-gpmc: wait pin additions")
>>>>
>>>> Coverity reported the following:
>>>>
>>>> *** CID 1527139: Control flow issues (NO_EFFECT)
>>>> drivers/memory/omap-gpmc.c:1048 in gpmc_is_valid_waitpin()
>>>> 1042 spin_unlock(&gpmc_mem_lock);
>>>> 1043 }
>>>> 1044 EXPORT_SYMBOL(gpmc_cs_free);
>>>> 1045
>>>> 1046 static bool gpmc_is_valid_waitpin(u32 waitpin)
>>>
>>> We will need to change this waitpin argument to int.
>>> In addition we will also need to change
>>> struct gpmc_waitpin->pin and struct gpmc_setting->wait_pin
>>> to int as in the code we are relying on GPMC_WAITPIN_INVALID logic which is -1.
>>
>> Another alternative with less churn is to leave them as u32
>> but make GPMC_WAITPIN_INVALID set to a large positive number.
> Ok, I will fix that.
> Do I need to send a new fix-patch on top the current patch series?
> Or should I just send only the bugfix-patch for the coverity-bot?
>

A bugfix patch on current next is ok.

Best regards,
Krzysztof