From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Is drive->id always set when ide_dma_check () gets called?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:51:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156114270.7078.6.camel@alice> (raw)
hi,
while trying to tackle some more coverity bugs, I came across
bug #206 to #211. They are all about the function they register for
hwif->ide_dma_check. Basically they all do something like
struct hd_driveid *id = drive->id
if (id && (id->capability & 1) && drive->autodma) {
something();
} else if ((id->capability & 8) || (id->field_valid & 2)) {
something_else();
}
Coverity complains that id is only checked for != NULL in the first case
but not the second. While trying to review the callers, all of them
either checked drive->id or dereferenced it themselves. Only with
probe_hwif() in drivers/ide/ide-probe.c I am not sure. So the question boils down
to: should we,
a) remove the check
b) add the check to the second case
c) just tell coverity to shut up
Thanks for comments,
Eric
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