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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@meizu.com>
Cc: vireshk@kernel.org, johan@kernel.org, elder@kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: Fix potential NULL dereference
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:32:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220311113208.GK3293@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1646987730-7597-1-git-send-email-baihaowen@meizu.com>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 04:35:30PM +0800, Haowen Bai wrote:
> Fix following coccicheck warning:
> drivers/staging/greybus/bootrom.c:301:35-39: ERROR: fw is NULL but dereferenced.
> 
> When goto queue_work but dereference Uninitialized fw will trigger a NULL 
> dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@meizu.com>

Your patch claims to fix a bug, but the warning is a false positive.
When we "goto queue_work;" then "ret = -EINVAL" so that means that we
will not dereference "fw".

You should ignore false positive warnings.

We would apply the patch only if it made the code more readable but I
do not think that is the case here.  I do not really even see how the
patch silences the false positive warning, but it may do...

Anyway, the point is:  False positive.  Ignore it.

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-11 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-11  8:35 [PATCH] staging: greybus: Fix potential NULL dereference Haowen Bai
2022-03-11  8:40 ` Viresh Kumar
2022-03-11  8:50   ` 答复: " 白浩文
2022-03-11 11:32 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-03-14  1:12   ` 白浩文

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