Coverity: tc358746_apply_pll_config(): Control flow issues

From: coverity-bot
Date: Thu Nov 10 2022 - 11:30:49 EST


Hello!

This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by
Coverity from a scan of next-20221110 as part of the linux-next scan project:
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan

You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified
lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits:

Thu Oct 27 14:48:40 2022 +0300
80a21da36051 ("media: tc358746: add Toshiba TC358746 Parallel to CSI-2 bridge driver")

Coverity reported the following:

*** CID 1527252: Control flow issues (DEADCODE)
drivers/media/i2c/tc358746.c:411 in tc358746_apply_pll_config()
405 return err;
406
407 val = PLL_FRS(ilog2(post)) | RESETB | PLL_EN;
408 mask = PLL_FRS_MASK | RESETB | PLL_EN;
409 tc358746_update_bits(tc358746, PLLCTL1_REG, mask, val);
410 if (err)
vvv CID 1527252: Control flow issues (DEADCODE)
vvv Execution cannot reach this statement: "return err;".
411 return err;
412
413 fsleep(1000);
414
415 return tc358746_set_bits(tc358746, PLLCTL1_REG, CKEN);
416 }

If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as
such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make
sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please
include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first):

Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1527252 ("Control flow issues")
Fixes: 80a21da36051 ("media: tc358746: add Toshiba TC358746 Parallel to CSI-2 bridge driver")

Thanks for your attention!

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