Re: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c:3598 mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group_refresh() warn: missing error code 'err'

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 07:53:43PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 06:48:40PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 05:35:00PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git  master
> > > head:   315d99318179b9cd5077ccc9f7f26a164c9fa998
> > > commit: e3ddfb45bacdc623eedea7f7bf9e7879257471d6 mlxsw: spectrum_router: Allow returning errors from mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group_refresh()
> > > config: x86_64-randconfig-m031-20210514 (attached as .config)
> > > compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-22) 9.3.0
> > > 
> > > If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> > > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > > 
> > > smatch warnings:
> > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c:3598 mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group_refresh() warn: missing error code 'err'
> > > 
> > > vim +/err +3598 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
> > > 
> > > e3ddfb45bacdc6 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-17  3555  static int
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3556  mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group_refresh(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp,
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3557  			       struct mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group *nh_grp)
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3558  {
> > > 7f7a417e6a11d7 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-13  3559  	struct mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group_info *nhgi = nh_grp->nhgi;
> > > eb789980d0aa6c Ido Schimmel       2017-10-22  3560  	u16 ecmp_size, old_ecmp_size;
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3561  	struct mlxsw_sp_nexthop *nh;
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3562  	bool offload_change = false;
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3563  	u32 adj_index;
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3564  	bool old_adj_index_valid;
> > > e3ddfb45bacdc6 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-17  3565  	int i, err2, err = 0;
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3566  	u32 old_adj_index;
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3567  
> > > 7f7a417e6a11d7 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-13  3568  	if (!nhgi->gateway) {
> > > b3e8d1ebad2d04 Ido Schimmel       2017-02-08  3569  		mlxsw_sp_nexthop_fib_entries_update(mlxsw_sp, nh_grp);
> > > e3ddfb45bacdc6 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-17  3570  		return 0;
> > > b3e8d1ebad2d04 Ido Schimmel       2017-02-08  3571  	}
> > > b3e8d1ebad2d04 Ido Schimmel       2017-02-08  3572  
> > > 7f7a417e6a11d7 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-13  3573  	for (i = 0; i < nhgi->count; i++) {
> > > 7f7a417e6a11d7 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-13  3574  		nh = &nhgi->nexthops[i];
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3575  
> > > 56b8a9ed276bc1 Petr Machata       2017-07-31  3576  		if (nh->should_offload != nh->offloaded) {
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3577  			offload_change = true;
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3578  			if (nh->should_offload)
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3579  				nh->update = 1;
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3580  		}
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3581  	}
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3582  	if (!offload_change) {
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3583  		/* Nothing was added or removed, so no need to reallocate. Just
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3584  		 * update MAC on existing adjacency indexes.
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3585  		 */
> > > 7f7a417e6a11d7 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-13  3586  		err = mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group_update(mlxsw_sp, nhgi, false);
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3587  		if (err) {
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3588  			dev_warn(mlxsw_sp->bus_info->dev, "Failed to update neigh MAC in adjacency table.\n");
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3589  			goto set_trap;
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3590  		}
> > > e3ddfb45bacdc6 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-17  3591  		return 0;
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3592  	}
> > > 7f7a417e6a11d7 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-13  3593  	mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group_normalize(nhgi);
> > > 7f7a417e6a11d7 Ido Schimmel       2020-11-13  3594  	if (!nhgi->sum_norm_weight)
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3595  		/* No neigh of this group is connected so we just set
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3596  		 * the trap and let everthing flow through kernel.
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05  3597  		 */
> > > a7ff87acd995e3 Jiri Pirko         2016-07-05 @3598  		goto set_trap;
> > > 
> > > The comments sort of imply that this is a success path so no error
> > > code necessary.  It's sort of hard to be positive though...
> > 
> > Thanks for the report, Dan. This is indeed a success path. How do you
> > suggest to handle it in order to avoid the warning on future smatch
> > invocations? I regularly run smatch before submitting patches and I
> > would like to keep it error/warning free.
> > 
> 
> You could move setting the error to within 4 lines of the goto:
> 
> 		err = 0;
> 		goto set_trap;
> 
> This check basically assumes that if you have a cleanup block after
> a return 0; then it should return a negative error code.  It finds
> quite a few bugs and I'm generally happy with it.  But like this is
> open source and all so I'm also always open to different ideas if you
> have a way to improve the check.

Actually, duh, I could make it a rule that if there is a comment like
this before the goto then it's probably fine.

This is quite tricky to implement in Smatch because Smatch works on the
preprocessed code so I can't promise that I will implement that change
right away.

regards,
dan carpenter