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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: rjkm@metzlerbros.de
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: re: [media] DRX-K: Initial check-in
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:46:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120608134635.GA19517@elgon.mountain> (raw)

Hello Ralph Metzler,

The patch 43dd07f758d8: "[media] DRX-K: Initial check-in" from Jul 3, 
2011, leads to the following warning:
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxk_hard.c:2980 ADCSynchronization()
	 warn: suspicious bitop condition

  2977                  status = read16(state, IQM_AF_CLKNEG__A, &clkNeg);
  2978                  if (status < 0)
  2979                          goto error;
  2980                  if ((clkNeg | IQM_AF_CLKNEG_CLKNEGDATA__M) ==
  2981                          IQM_AF_CLKNEG_CLKNEGDATA_CLK_ADC_DATA_POS) {

IQM_AF_CLKNEG_CLKNEGDATA__M is 2.
IQM_AF_CLKNEG_CLKNEGDATA_CLK_ADC_DATA_POS is 0.
So this condition can never be true.

  2982                          clkNeg &= (~(IQM_AF_CLKNEG_CLKNEGDATA__M));
  2983                          clkNeg |=
  2984                                  IQM_AF_CLKNEG_CLKNEGDATA_CLK_ADC_DATA_NEG;
  2985                  } else {
  2986                          clkNeg &= (~(IQM_AF_CLKNEG_CLKNEGDATA__M));
  2987                          clkNeg |=
  2988                                  IQM_AF_CLKNEG_CLKNEGDATA_CLK_ADC_DATA_POS;

	clkNeg |= 0; <-- doesn't make much sense to the unenlightened.

  2989                  }

I wrote a Smatch thing to find places that do x |= 0 inspired by the
above oddity and it finds several other places which do that:

drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxk_hard.c:2525 GetQAMSignalToNoise() info: why not propagate 'status' from read16() instead of -22?
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxk_hard.c:2980 ADCSynchronization() warn: suspicious bitop condition
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxk_hard.c:2988 ADCSynchronization() warn: x |= 0
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxk_hard.c:3833 SetDVBT() warn: x |= 0
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxk_hard.c:3847 SetDVBT() warn: x |= 0
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxk_hard.c:3888 SetDVBT() warn: x |= 0
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxk_hard.c:3915 SetDVBT() warn: x |= 0
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxk_hard.c:3931 SetDVBT() warn: x |= 0

regards,
dan carpenter


             reply	other threads:[~2012-06-08 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-08 13:46 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-06-10 19:42 ` [media] DRX-K: Initial check-in Ralph Metzler
2012-06-10 20:54   ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-15 16:54     ` Ralph Metzler
2012-06-26  8:40       ` [patch] [media] drxk: fix a '&' vs '|' bug Dan Carpenter

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