Re: Re : [CHECKER] 28 potential interrupt errors

[torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)]

In article <20010322153641.B13162@bougret.hpl.hp.com>,
Jean Tourrilhes  <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>
>	I agree that the IrDA stack is full of irq/locking bugs (there
>is a patch of mine waiting in Dag's mailbox), but this one is not a
>bug, it's a false positive.
>	The restore_flags(flags); will restore the state of the
>interrupt register before the cli happened, so will automatically
>reenable interrupts.

Look closer. The error report is a big bogus, because it points out as
an error the "return" that is _correct_, not the "return" that is buggy.

Their checkers verify that all exists out of a function have the same
characteristics, and they found a case where one exit exists with
interrupts still disabled, while another one exists after having done a
"restore_flags()". 

So it looks like a real bug, it's just that the error is the _earlier_
return value, not the one pointed at.

		Linus