linux-kernel - Re: staging: exfat: issue with FFS_MEDIAERR error return assignment

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Date:   Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:44:43 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: staging: exfat: issue with FFS_MEDIAERR error return assignment

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 07:38:00PM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Static analysis on exfat with Coverity has picked up an assignment of
> FFS_MEDIAERR that gets over-written:
> 
> 
> 1750        if (is_dir) {
> 1751                if ((fid->dir.dir == p_fs->root_dir) &&
> 1752                    (fid->entry == -1)) {
> 1753                        if (p_fs->dev_ejected)

Idealy we would have both a filename and a function name but this email
doesn't have either so no one knows what code you are talking about.  :P

regards,
dan carpenter