linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI: fix ptr

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Date:   Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:47:37 +0200
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
Cc:     kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
        Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>, kbuild-all@...org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: fix ptr_ret.cocci warnings

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 03:18:38PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 07:30:41AM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> > From: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> > 
> > drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c:1132:1-3: WARNING: PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO can be used
> > 
> > 
> >  Use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO rather than if(IS_ERR(...)) + PTR_ERR
> > 
> > Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/ptr_ret.cocci
> > 
> > Fixes: 6e0832fa432e ("PCI: Collect all native drivers under drivers/pci/controller/")
> > CC: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>
> > Signed-off-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  pci-tegra.c |    5 +----
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Thierry,
> 
> are you OK with this change ? I will remove the Fixes: tag since
> this does not fix anything AFAICS.

This has been proposed several times in the past and each time Bjorn and
I have agreed that we'd rather not merge that change. I think the
original is clearer and allows the code to be more easily extended.

I don't know if there's a way to "whitelist" certain drivers or sub-
systems where these kinds of changes are known not to be desired. Or
perhaps there's some way to trick coccinelle into not recognizing this
particular instance.

Then again, it seems wrong to have to work around over-ambitious
semantic patches...

Thierry

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