From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out-240.synserver.de ([212.40.185.240]:1062 "EHLO smtp-out-188.synserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751289AbbKCJWb (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2015 04:22:31 -0500 Message-ID: <56387CD2.3010906@metafoo.de> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 10:22:26 +0100 From: Lars-Peter Clausen MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Cameron , Ioana Ciornei , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org CC: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] iio: gyro: check sscanf return value References: <1446382725-11765-1-git-send-email-ciorneiioana@gmail.com> <56365728.9020304@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <56365728.9020304@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Sender: linux-iio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On 11/01/2015 07:17 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 01/11/15 12:58, Ioana Ciornei wrote: >> This patch fixes the checkpatch warnings: >> WARNING: unchecked sscanf return value >> >> Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei > Hi Ioana, > > Couple of minor process points (the patches are fine!) > > You should have cc'd the driver author and generally also > the various listed reviewers in MAINTAINERS. In this case > of of them is the driver author so possibly just pinging him > is the way to go. In the case of Analog devices parts, > Lars-Peter is also the maintainer so it's all about as > easy as it gets in this case. > > Lars, looks fine to me. Your driver so please sanity check. > Clearly it's not a bug as the inputs are entirely controlled > by the driver code, but I think having a sanity check on > the return value is a good thing (from the point of view of > best practice). As you say strictly speaking it is not necessary, but if it makes checkpatch happy why not. Acked-by: Lars-Peter Clausen > > There is a second patch for some the IIO drivers that are your > problem as well - I'll let you pull that off the list as I'm > feeling lazy ;) > > I did have to check that sscanf never returns any more helpful > error codes, but unlike the glibc one it seems not. What fun. > > Jonathan >> --- >> >> based on linux-iio/testing branch >> >> drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c | 4 +++- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c b/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c >> index 26de876..bb09bff 100644 >> --- a/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c >> +++ b/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c >> @@ -435,7 +435,9 @@ static int adis16136_initial_setup(struct iio_dev *indio_dev) >> if (ret) >> return ret; >> >> - sscanf(indio_dev->name, "adis%u\n", &device_id); >> + ret = sscanf(indio_dev->name, "adis%u\n", &device_id); >> + if (ret != 1) >> + return -EINVAL; >> >> if (prod_id != device_id) >> dev_warn(&indio_dev->dev, "Device ID(%u) and product ID(%u) do not match.", >> > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >