On 07.03.2021 10:31, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> Hi Leon,
>
> I am quite sorry for my incorrect patches...
> My static analysis tool reports some possible bugs about error handling code, and thus I write some patches for the bugs that seem to be true in my opinion.
> Because I am not familiar with many device drivers, some of my reported bugs can be false positives...
Then, before posting a patch for a driver, get familiar with it to
an extent that you can identify false positives. Relying on others
to detect the false positives is not the best approach.
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Jia-Ju Bai
>
> On 2021/3/7 17:18, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 01:07:57AM -0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>>> When hif_scatter_req_get() returns NULL to scat_req, no error return
>>> code of ath6kl_htc_rx_bundle() is assigned.
>>> To fix this bug, status is assigned with -EINVAL in this case.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: TOTE Robot <[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_mbox.c | 4 +++-
>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_mbox.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_mbox.c
>>> index 998947ef63b6..3f8857d19a0c 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_mbox.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_mbox.c
>>> @@ -1944,8 +1944,10 @@ static int ath6kl_htc_rx_bundle(struct htc_target *target,
>>>
>>> scat_req = hif_scatter_req_get(target->dev->ar);
>>>
>>> - if (scat_req == NULL)
>>> + if (scat_req == NULL) {
>>> + status = -EINVAL;
>> I'm not sure about it.
>>
>> David. Jakub,
>> Please be warned that patches from this guy are not so great.
>> I looked on 4 patches and 3 of them were wrong (2 in RDMA and 1 for mlx5)
>> plus this patch most likely is incorrect too.
>>