Re: Coverity: vgxy61_detect(): Control flow issues

From: Benjamin MUGNIER
Date: Mon Nov 14 2022 - 08:17:55 EST


Hello,

Thank you for your report.

This issue, and all other reported control flow issues, are fixed in the
following patch: 'media: i2c: st-vgxy61: Fix smatch warnings'.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20221110134102.64990-1-benjamin.mugnier@xxxxxxxxxxx/

On 11/10/22 17:28, coverity-bot wrote:
> 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 14:37:38 2022 +0300
> 153e4ad44d60 ("media: i2c: Add driver for ST VGXY61 camera sensor")
>
> Coverity reported the following:
>
> *** CID 1527257: Control flow issues (NO_EFFECT)
> drivers/media/i2c/st-vgxy61.c:1679 in vgxy61_detect()
> 1673 struct i2c_client *client = sensor->i2c_client;
> 1674 u16 id = 0;
> 1675 int ret;
> 1676 u8 st;
> 1677
> 1678 id = vgxy61_read_reg(sensor, VGXY61_REG_MODEL_ID);
> vvv CID 1527257: Control flow issues (NO_EFFECT)
> vvv This less-than-zero comparison of an unsigned value is never true. "id < 0".
> 1679 if (id < 0)
> 1680 return id;
> 1681 if (id != VG5661_MODEL_ID && id != VG5761_MODEL_ID) {
> 1682 dev_warn(&client->dev, "Unsupported sensor id %x\n", id);
> 1683 return -ENODEV;
> 1684 }
>
> 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: 1527257 ("Control flow issues")
> Fixes: 153e4ad44d60 ("media: i2c: Add driver for ST VGXY61 camera sensor")
>
> Thanks for your attention!
>

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Regards,

Benjamin