Re: Coverity: vgxy61_detect(): Control flow issues

[Benjamin MUGNIER <benjamin.mugnier@foss.st.com>]

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@foss.st.com/

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@chromium.org>
> 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