linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver-core: fix odd_ptr

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Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:19:36 -0800
From:   Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org>
Cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, kbuild-all@...org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Olof Johansson <olofj@...omium.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@...labora.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: fix odd_ptr_err.cocci warnings

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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr> wrote:
>>
>> PTR_ERR should access the value just tested by IS_ERR
>>
>> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/tests/odd_ptr_err.cocci
>>
>> CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
>> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
>> ---
>>
>> 0-day warning related to the following commit:
>>
>> tree:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
>> driver-core-testing
>> head:   dfea747d2aba77443acf7ce6fa37caa729bd034c
>> commit: 79543cf2b18ea4a35f8864849d7ad8882ea8a23d [10/14] driver-core: add
>> test module for asynchronous probing
>>
>> I haven't checked the context in detail.
>>
>>
>>  test_async_driver_probe.c |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> --- a/drivers/base/test/test_async_driver_probe.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/test/test_async_driver_probe.c
>> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static int __init test_async_probe_init(
>>         sync_dev_1 = platform_device_register_simple("test_sync_driver",
>> 1,
>>                                                      NULL, 0);
>>         if (IS_ERR(async_dev_1)) {
>> -               error = PTR_ERR(sync_dev_1);
>> +               error = PTR_ERR(async_dev_1);
>
>
> NAK. It should be "if (IS_ERR(sync_dev_1)) {"
>
>>
>>                 pr_err("failed to create sync_dev_1: %d", error);
>>                 goto err_unregister_sync_driver;
>>         }
>
>