linux-hardening - Coverity: imx290_ctrl_init(): Error handling issues

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Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:30:46 -0800
From:   coverity-bot <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@...tq-group.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Coverity: imx290_ctrl_init(): Error handling issues

Hello!

This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by
Coverity from a scan of next-20221110 as part of the linux-next scan project:
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan

You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified
lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits:

  Thu Oct 27 14:38:02 2022 +0300
    4c9c93cf8657 ("media: i2c: imx290: Create controls for fwnode properties")

Coverity reported the following:

*** CID 1527251:  Error handling issues  (CHECKED_RETURN)
drivers/media/i2c/imx290.c:1056 in imx290_ctrl_init()
1050     	imx290->vblank = v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&imx290->ctrls, &imx290_ctrl_ops,
1051     					   V4L2_CID_VBLANK, blank, blank, 1,
1052     					   blank);
1053     	if (imx290->vblank)
1054     		imx290->vblank->flags |= V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_READ_ONLY;
1055
vvv     CID 1527251:  Error handling issues  (CHECKED_RETURN)
vvv     Calling "v4l2_ctrl_new_fwnode_properties" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 9 out of 10 times).
1056     	v4l2_ctrl_new_fwnode_properties(&imx290->ctrls, &imx290_ctrl_ops,
1057     					&props);
1058
1059     	imx290->sd.ctrl_handler = &imx290->ctrls;
1060
1061     	if (imx290->ctrls.error) {

If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as
such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make
sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please
include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first):

Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@...omium.org>
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1527251 ("Error handling issues")
Fixes: 4c9c93cf8657 ("media: i2c: imx290: Create controls for fwnode properties")

Thanks for your attention!

-- 
Coverity-bot