From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>,
Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix unused-value issues in tpm_try_transmit
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:01:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181011120140.GA15767@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181010140638.GA3894@ziepe.ca>
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 08:06:38AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 03:38:17PM +0200, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > Currently, there are some values assigned to variable *rc*, which
> > are never actually used in any computation, because such variable
> > is updated at line 550, before they can be used:
> >
> > 549out:
> > 550 rc = tpm_go_idle(chip, flags);
> > 551 if (rc)
> > 552 goto out;
> >
> > Fix this by removing such assignments.
>
> Should this be done by not quashing rc during the error unwind rather
> than dropping the errors?
Yeah.`
Wondering if tpm_go_idle() should simply be a void-function i.e. issue
just a warning inside (disclaimer: did not revisit its code when writing
this).
> Jason
/Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-11 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-10 13:38 [PATCH] tpm: fix unused-value issues in tpm_try_transmit Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-10-10 14:06 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-10-11 12:01 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2018-10-11 13:27 ` Winkler, Tomas
2018-10-15 10:41 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-10-15 11:18 ` Winkler, Tomas
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