From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933130AbcECO0J (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2016 10:26:09 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]:35159 "EHLO mail-wm0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932943AbcECO0H (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2016 10:26:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [report] invalid error code in do_register_con_driver() console To: Dan Carpenter References: <20160225213409.GD18267@mwanda> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jiri Slaby Message-ID: <5728B4FB.8090208@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:26:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160225213409.GD18267@mwanda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/25/2016, 10:34 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > Hi Jiri, > > I'm getting the following static checker warning: > > drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3588 do_register_con_driver() > warn: missing error code here? 'csw->con_startup()' failed. 'retval' = '0' > > drivers/tty/vt/vt.c > 3582 if (retval) > 3583 goto err; > 3584 > 3585 desc = csw->con_startup(); > 3586 > 3587 if (!desc) > 3588 goto err; > 3589 > 3590 retval = -EINVAL; > 3591 > > Probably, we could more the "retval = -EINVAL;" before the goto? I > don't think it's intentional? Yes, you are right. I've prepared a fix to send out. thanks, -- js suse labs