Re: Coverity: ad7476_probe(): Incorrect expression

Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-04-24T19:01:19Z

This one has already been addressed by Colin:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200424130419.22940-1-colin.king@canonical.com/

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Gustavo

On 4/24/20 10:25, coverity-bot wrote:
> Hello!
>
> This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by
> Coverity from a scan of next-20200424 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:
>
> Wed Mar 11 10:43:26 2020 +0200
> 3a6af93dd66e ("iio: adc: ad7476: Add IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW for AD7091R")
>
> Coverity reported the following:
>
> *** CID 1492717: Incorrect expression (NO_EFFECT)
> /drivers/iio/adc/ad7476.c: 312 in ad7476_probe()
> 306 indio_dev->name = spi_get_device_id(spi)->name;
> 307 indio_dev->modes = INDIO_DIRECT_MODE;
> 308 indio_dev->channels = st->chip_info->channel;
> 309 indio_dev->num_channels = 2;
> 310 indio_dev->info = &ad7476_info;
> 311
> vvv CID 1492717: Incorrect expression (NO_EFFECT)
> vvv Comparing an array to null is not useful: "st->chip_info->convst_channel", since the test will always evaluate as true.
> 312 if (st->convst_gpio && st->chip_info->convst_channel)
> 313 indio_dev->channels = st->chip_info->convst_channel;
> 314 /* Setup default message */
> 315
> 316 st->xfer.rx_buf = &st->data;
> 317 st->xfer.len = st->chip_info->channel[0].scan_type.storagebits / 8;
>
> 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: 1492717 ("Incorrect expression")
> Fixes: 3a6af93dd66e ("iio: adc: ad7476: Add IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW for AD7091R")
>
> Thanks for your attention!
>