linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: uvc: fix returnvar.cocci warnings

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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2016 19:27:09 +0200
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:     Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...sung.com>
Cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, kbuild-all@...org,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: uvc: fix returnvar.cocci warnings

Hi Andrzej and Julia,

Could one of you please submit a patch to fix this ?

On Thursday 17 Sep 2015 13:18:04 Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote:
> Hi Julia,
> 
> W dniu 17.09.2015 o 10:57, Julia Lawall pisze:
> > Coccinelle suggests the following patch.  But the code is curious.  Is the
> > function expected to always return a failure value?
> 
> Thank you for catching this. The function is not expected to always
> return a failure value. Fortunately it does not matter anyway because
> the return value of the drop_link() operation is silently ignored by
> its caller in fs/configfs/symlink.c, functions configfs_symlink()
> and configfs_unlink(). For my comments see inline.
> 
> > thanks,
> > julia
> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, kbuild test robot wrote:
> >> TO: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...sung.com>
> >> CC: kbuild-all@...org
> >> CC: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
> >> CC: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
> >> CC: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> >> CC: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
> >> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> >> 
> >> drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c:866:5-8: Unneeded variable:
> >> "ret". Return "- EINVAL" on line 891>> 
> >>   Remove unneeded variable used to store return value.
> >> 
> >> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/returnvar.cocci
> >> 
> >> CC: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...sung.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> >> ---
> >> 
> >> Please take the patch only if it's a positive warning. Thanks!
> >> 
> >>   uvc_configfs.c |    3 +--
> >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
> >> @@ -863,7 +863,6 @@ static int uvcg_streaming_header_drop_li
> >>   	struct uvcg_streaming_header *src_hdr;
> >>   	struct uvcg_format *target_fmt = NULL;
> >>   	struct uvcg_format_ptr *format_ptr, *tmp;
> >> -	int ret = -EINVAL;
> >> 
> >>   	src_hdr = to_uvcg_streaming_header(src);
> >>   	mutex_lock(su_mutex); /* for navigating configfs hierarchy */
> >> @@ -888,7 +887,7 @@ static int uvcg_streaming_header_drop_li
> >>   out:
> >>   	mutex_unlock(&opts->lock);
> >>   	mutex_unlock(su_mutex);
> >> 
> >> -	return ret;
> >> +	return -EINVAL;
> 
> return 0;

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart